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What are the symptoms of constrictive pericarditis?
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Varies: Can range from mild shortness of breathe with exertion to flash pulmonay edema and florid heart failure.
Answered 6/19/2012
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Edema: The most striking finding in constrictive pericarditis is severe edema with minimal respiratory symptoms unlike in patients with heart failure. The neck veins are engorged, the abdomen is distended with enlarged liver and ascites and the extremities are severely swollen and yet patient appears to be quite comfortable even when lying in bed nearly flat
Answered 9/17/2014
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