A 58-year-old woman admitted to evaluate the symptoms of right-sided heart failure with slight ascites and peripheral oedema lasting more than 6 months. Her medical history revealed that she had been affected by pleuritis when she was 34 years old, and be diagnosed as constrictive pericarditis documented by right ventricular pressure tracings showing dip-and-plateau pattern at 50 years. The chest x-ray (lateral view) demonstrated extensive pericardial calcifications from the anterior to inferior …
