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To the Editor: Constrictive pericarditis is characterized by a thickened and adherent pericardium that restricts diastolic filling of the heart.¹ Although many diagnostic criteria for constrictive pericarditis have been proposed, not all cases necessarily fulfill them.² Thus, the diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis is sometimes difficult.

We cared for a patient with constrictive pericarditis for whom we used tagged cine magnetic resonance imaging (cine MRI)³ and successfully identified adhesion of the thickened pericardium to the myocardium, which is the essential feature of constrictive pericarditis. Tagged cine MRI is a new, noninvasive imaging technique for labeling and monitoring specific regions of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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