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Chest, Vol 80, 513-515, Copyright © 1981 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Motion of pulmonic valve and constrictive pericarditis

YL Doi, T Sugiura and DH Spodick

Extreme respiratory variation in the depth of the "a" wave of the pulmonic valve echo was demonstrated in a patient with constrictive pericarditis; a mechanism for this finding is offered. Disparity in systolic and diastolic ventricular function in constriction is also useful in ruling out restrictive cardiomyopathy.




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