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EFFECT OF RESECTION OF THE PERICARDIUM ON THE CIRCULATION OF A PATIENT WITH CONCRETIO CORDIS

C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D.; D. FLICKINGER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1935;56(2):250-257.

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The symptoms and signs of concretio cordis as a type of obstructing pericarditis were clearly described by Volhard and Schmieden¹ in 1923. They measured the venous pressure and found that it was elevated. Beck and Griswold² in 1930 were able to produce in dogs constricting pericardial scars associated with an elevated venous pressure, a diminished cardiac output, a small pulse and edema. Resection of these scars was followed by a fall in the venous pressure, a rise in the cardiac output and a diminution in the edema.

Burwell and Strayhorn³ in 1932 reported quantitative studies of the circulation in a young man subsequently proved to have concretio cordis. He exhibited a high venous pressure, a small pulse pressure and a diminished cardiac output per minute and per beat. Exercise was associated with an increase in the arteriovenous oxygen difference; but no increase occurred in the output per . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NASHVILLE, TENN.

From the Department of Medicine of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

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