A case of decompensated cirrhosis and constrictive epicarditis Case report

Abstract

We report a case of a 65-year-old man, who was admitted to our Department due to decompensated cirrhosis. We excluded the major causes of disease. Finally we diagnosed constrictive epicarditis. We want to show that it is important to establish the cardiological state of the patient with newly diagnosed liver disease, even if the subject does not have a wide range of symptoms of heart failure. The differential diagnosis of cirrhosis should always include also cardiological reasons because the further management and prognosis is largely dictated by the aetiology of disease.