Extensive pericardial calcification secondary to radiotherapy, causing mixed constrictive-restrictive pathology

BJR Case Rep. 2017 Jul 29;3(4):20170036. doi: 10.1259/bjrcr.20170036. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

This report presents the case of a patient who suffered from a mediastinal neuroblastoma in his childhood (in 1977), having been treated by surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As a result, he developed multiple calcifications in the atria walls, interatrial septum, right ventricular free wall, mitral and aortic valves and pericardium, triggering a mixed constrictive and restrictive pathology.

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