Constrictive pericarditis following open-heart surgery in a child

• Egile Nagusiak: Siddharthan Deepti (Egilea), Saurabh Kumar Gupta (Egilea), Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan (Egilea), Sachin Talwar (Egilea), Shyam Sunder Kothari (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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A 6-year- old child developed constrictive pericarditis 2 years after undergoing an open-heart surgery for a congenital cardiac disorder. No other cause of pericarditis was identified. The clinical condition improved after pericardiectomy. The case is reported for its rarity.