Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis Presenting as Ascites in a
Young Male
Ammar A. Hasnie, MD1, Neal J. Miller,
MD2, James Davies,
MD3, and Gregory Von Mering,
MD2
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL, USA.
- Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University
of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University
of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Manuscript Word Count: 861
Funding: None
Conflict of Interest: All authors have no disclosures
Authorship: All authors had full access to the data when
designing and drafting the manuscript.
Article type: Cardiovascular Images: Cardiac MRI
Key words: Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Pericardial Diseases
Running Header: Constrictive Pericarditis Presenting as
Isolated Ascites
This case does not include any PHI and is exempt from IRB protocol at
this institution.