Diastolic mitral and tricuspid regurgitation was also more common in the patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy. These results suggest that patients with constrictive pericarditis and ...

The main disorder that constrictive pericarditis must be distinguished from is restrictive cardiomyopathy, which has a similar clinical presentation and echocardiographic findings. Invasive ...

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar ...

Also, BNP levels are low in patients with heart failure from constrictive pericarditis which differentiates it from restrictive cardiomyopathy where the BNP levels are high. A newer assay ...