Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2011
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
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Hepatocirrhosis
- Lung cancer with invasion to the pleura
- Pulmonary embolism
- Chronic pulmonary heart
Correct answer
Constrictive pericarditis
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