A Stiff Heart & Swollen Legs

A patient presents with Lower Extremity Edema. Discover a key cardiac cause where a stiff, calcified pericardium leads to diastolic heart failure.

Constrictive pericarditis


This patient presented with lower extremity edema. What is the diagnosis?

What is the most likely diagnosis?

Cardiac amyloidosis
Mitral stenosis
Constrictive pericarditis
Left ventricular aneurysm
Mediastinal lymphoma

Constrictive Pericarditis, Diastolic Heart Failure, Kussmaul’s Sign, Lower Extremity Edema, Pericardial Disease

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