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07 February 2025 : Case report  USA

Constrictive Pericarditis as a Post-Cardiac Surgery Complication

Unusual clinical course, Challenging differential diagnosis, Unusual setting of medical care, Rare disease

Mustafa Nuaimi ORCID logo ABDEF 1, Brian Shaw ORCID logo DEF 1, Sara Ubosy ORCID logo BDF 1, Murali Iyyani CF 2, Ryan Shaw CF 3, Mario Madruga ADE 1, Kwabena Ayesu ACD 1, Stephen J. Carlan ORCID logo AEF 4*

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.945294

Am J Case Rep 2025; 26:e945294

Figure 1. Transthoracic echocardiogram. Red arrows show a septal bounce sign moving through the cardiac cycle (A to B in yellow). RV is the right ventricle, and LV is the left ventricle. The early diastolic filling of the right ventricle leads to the leftward deviation of the interventricular septum followed by a bounce back towards the right ventricle in late diastole. This results from increases in early diastolic pressure in the right ventricle that exceeds left ventricular diastolic pressures during the cardiac cycle. The septal bounce is explained as a rapid and asymmetric filling of ventricles in early diastole, resulting in an intracardiac fluctuating pressure gradient that manifests as an abrupt shift of the septum.

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American Journal of Case Reports eISSN: 1941-5923
American Journal of Case Reports eISSN: 1941-5923