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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2007

After a long periode of subfebrility a patient registered increase of dyspnea, pain in the right hypochondrium, leg edemata. Objectively: neck veins are edematic. Ps is 120 bpm, sometimes it disappears during inspiration. Heart sounds are very weakened. ECG showed low-voltage waves of ventricular complex. A month ago there was raise of ST V1 — V4 segment. Cardiac silhouette is enlarged, roundish. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Metabolic postinfection myocardi-opathy
  2. Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
  3. Exudative pericarditis
  4. Primary rheumatic carditis
  5. Small-focal myocardial infarction
Correct answer

Exudative pericarditis

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