Lloyd JW, Oh JK, Daly RC, et al. - For constrictive pericarditis (CP), pericardiectomy is the definitive treatment, however, there are limited data on CP after orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Hence, researchers performed a retrospective review of 8 cases of surgically proven CP after OHT undergoing pericardiectomy. Postpericardiectomy 30-day mortality of 13% (1 patient) was observed. After pericardiectomy, they observed median survival of 2.3 years and 5-year survival of 29%. Overall, findings suggest that CP after OHT represents a subset of patients with CP with high morbidity and mortality, and there is a necessity for multimodality assessment for its diagnosis. They indicated poor long-term survival despite a relatively low surgical mortality.