Pericardiectomy: prompt surgical management of constrictive pericarditis.

Background: Constrictive pericarditis is a slow progressive fibrosis of the pericardium leading to a variety of symptoms and signs over time. The disease poses a diagnostic challenge; restrictive cardiomyopathy and other syndromes associated with right-sided pressure abnormalities share similar symptoms and clinical findings. Pericardiectomy is considered the treatment of choice for constrictive pericarditis.

Uterine leiomyoma extension into right atrium.

We report a case of an intravenous leiomyomatosis of uterine origin extending into the right atrium, which was treated by two-stage surgery.