Abstract
We report a ease of recurrent calcified chronic constrictive pericarditis of 31 years' duration, complicated by the development of tuberculous meningitis two weeks after a third pericardiectomy. It is suggested that all patients undergoing pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis should have anti-tuberculous therapy even in the absence of an established tuberculous aetiology.
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