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A 60-year-old patient has been admitted to a hospital with complaints of dyspnea, tightness in the right subcostal area, abdomen enlargement. These presentations have been progressing for a year. Heart auscultation reveals presystolic gallop rhythm. Objectively: swelling of the neck veins, ascites, palpable liver and spleen. What disease requires differential diagnostics?

Answer options

  1. Constrictive pericarditis
  2. Hepatocirrhosis
  3. Lung cancer with invasion to the pleura
  4. Pulmonary embolism
  5. Chronic pulmonary heart
Correct answer

Constrictive pericarditis

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