Constrictive pericarditis is relatively uncommon. Constrictive phenomenon involves in the majority of cases the two layers of the pericardium namely the parietal pericardium and the visceral one. Chronic epicarditis is a distinct and very scarce form where only the visceral pericardium is interested by the pathologic process. We present herein the case of a 25 years old patient admitted in our department for surgical treatment of a chronic visceral pericarditis. We discuss along some important clinical and therapeutic points related to this specific presentation with a special interest to the right ventricular dysfunction after pericardiectomy.
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