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Effusive Constrictive Pericarditis
Effusive constrictive pericarditis is the least common of the pericardial constraint syndromes. It is defined as the persistence of elevated intracardiac pressure after pericardiocentesis for pericardial tamponade. It was first recognized in the 1920s and 1930s when surgical pericardiectomy became…