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(Circulation. 1950;2:134.)
© 1950 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Chronic Pericarditis with Effusion

PAUL S. BARKER M. D.¹ FRANKLIN D. JOHNSTON M. D.¹

¹ From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, and the University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Pericarditis with effusion is sometimes a chronic disease, an exception to the general rule that it is acute rather than chronic. Illustrative cases are described. Features of interest are the prominent third heart sound, the large P waves, the thrombi in the right atrium, the progression to constrictive pericarditis, and the resemblance in several respects to mitral stenosis.

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