Constrictive pericarditis versus restrictive cardiomyopathy: the role of Doppler echocardiography in differential diagnosis

L Mancuso, A D'Agostino, F Pitrolo, S Marchì… - International journal of …, 1991 - Elsevier
… The patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy showed moderate or … constrictive pericarditis
and restrictive cardiomyopathy can be differentiated by comparing Doppler echocardiographic

Differential diagnosis of restrictive cardiomyopathy and constrictive pericarditis

EW Hancock - Heart, 2001 - heart.bmj.com
constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy began to … cardiac catheterisation
began to be used in the diagnosis of … by Doppler echocardiography. Circulation 79:357–370, …

Constrictive pericarditis versus restrictive cardiomyopathy: challenges in diagnosis and management

KM Chinnaiyan, CB Leff, DL Marsalese - Cardiology in Review, 2004 - journals.lww.com
… of differential diagnosis between restrictive cardiomyopathy and constrictive pericarditis. …
to hemodynamic and Doppler echocardiographic features. We report a case of severe right …

The differentiation between restrictive cardiomyopathy and constrictive pericarditis: the impact of the imaging techniques

LUCL MERTENS, B Denef, H De Geest - Echocardiography, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… are present, Doppler echocardiography with registration of the … and differential diagnosis of
restrictive cardiomyopathy. Car… of constrictive pericarditis: Analysis of outcome and diagnostic

Differentiation of constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy using mitral annular velocity by tissue Doppler echocardiography

JW Ha, SR Ommen, AJ Tajik, ME Barnes… - The American journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
… patients who had restrictive cardiomyopathy but was relatively normal or even accentuated
in those who had constrictive pericarditis.6, 7 This study validates the diagnostic role of E′ …

Diastolic heart failure: restrictive cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis, and cardiac tamponade: clinical and echocardiographic evaluation

CR Asher, AL Klein - Cardiology in review, 2002 - journals.lww.com
… This review discusses the general principles of normal diastolic function and … Stages of
diastolic function as assessed by Doppler echocardiography mitral … Differential Diagnosis

Restrictive cardiomyopathies

P Nihoyannopoulos, D Dawson - … Journal of Echocardiography, 2009 - academic.oup.com
differential diagnosis is crucial as constrictive pericarditis may be curable by surgical pericardial
resection, whereas restrictive cardiomyopathy is … -Doppler echocardiography during the …

Is it constrictive pericarditis or restrictive cardiomyopathy? A systematic approach

A Morshedi‐Meibodi, R Menuet… - … Heart Failure, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
constrictive pericarditis or restrictive cardiomyopathy. Additionally, while focusing on the
differential diagnosis … While Doppler echocardiography has improved our diagnostic capabilities…

The differentiation of restrictive cardiomyopathy from constrictive pericarditis

MH Schoenfeld - Cardiology Clinics, 1990 - Elsevier
… The differentiation of restrictive cardiomyopathy from pericardial constriction remains one of
the major diagnostic quandaries for … Echocardiographic features of constrictive pericarditis

Differentiation between restrictive cardiomyopathy and constrictive pericarditis by early diastolic Doppler myocardial velocity gradient at the posterior wall

P Palka, A Lange, JE Donnelly, P Nihoyannopoulos - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
differential diagnosis between restrictive cardiomyopathyechocardiographic parameters
have been proposed as ways to differentiate restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) from constrictive