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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Dec 21;44(1):81–88. doi: 10.1002/jmri.25126

Table 1.

Characteristics of patients with suspected constrictive pericarditis.

N=19
Clinical: Sex, % male 10 (53)
    Age, years (mean ± SD) 51 ± 16
    Body mass index, kg/m2 (mean ± SD) 31.0 ± 8.2
Laboratory Data, mean ± SD
    Apartate aminotransferase, U/L, n=15 26 ± 8
    Alanine aminotransferase, U/L, n=13 33 ± 15
    Total bilirubin, mg/dl, n=14 0.6 ± 0.3
    Direct bilirubin, mg/dl, n=13 0.2 ± 0.2
    Alkaline phosphatase, U/L, n=14 90 ± 36
    Creatinine, mg/dl 0.9 ± 0.1
    C-reactive protein, mg/L, n=14 (median (25;75 IQ) 4.3 (1.3;21.0)
    ESR, mm/1h, n=18, (median (25;75 IQ) 11 (5;15)
Magnetic Resonance Elastography
    Automatic Liver Stiffness (kPa) 3.21 ± 1.52

IQ, interquartile; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate;