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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on May 30, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn240
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A strangled heart by calcified pericardial band: a rare case of localized pericardial constriction detected by chance

Seok-Jae Hwang, Soo-Joong Kim and Kwon-Sam Kim*

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung-Hee University School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Center, Kyung-Hee Medical Center, 1 Hoeghi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-702, Republic of Korea

* Corresponding author. Tel: +82 2 958 8099, Fax: +82 2 968 1848, Email: kimsmd@unitel.co.kr

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A 49-year-old gentleman was referred to our emergency department with atypical chest discomfort after traffic accident. Paradoxical pulse could be demonstrated without definite pericardial knock on chest auscultation. A chest X-ray showed mild cardiomegaly and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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