Constrictive Pericarditis Due toHistoplasma capsulatum

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Abstract
THE progressive increase in knowledge of the clinical spectrum of histoplasmosis in man, coupled with the infrequency of a specific etiologic diagnosis in patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis, contributes to the interest of the following case report.Case ReportA 14-year-old high-school girl was admitted for the 1st time to Children's Hospital for evaluation of recurrent edema on November 1, 1959.She had been in good health until February, 1956, when, at 11 years of age, she was admitted to another hospital with a 2-week history of anorexia, malaise, nonproductive cough, chest discomfort and abdominal pain. Fever was present, with . . .