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Impact of concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting on postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing pericardiectomy: A 33-year experienceCentral MessagePerspective

open access: yesJTCVS Open, 2023
Objective: Concomitant coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and pericardiectomy (PC) can be a technically challenging operation. We sought to study the outcomes of patients undergoing concomitant PC and CABG. Methods: Between July 1983 and August 2016,
Vishal Khullar, MBBS   +10 more
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“Healing the Heart”: A Retrospective Analysis of Surgical Management of Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis at Tikur Anbessa Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Background: Chronic Constrictive pericarditis is a condition that can lead to diastolic heart failure due to a thickened, scarred, and non-compliant pericardium.
Bezabih, Abebe   +3 more
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Does tuberculosis affect surgical outcomes following pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis? Twelve years’ experience from a tertiary care center in India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022
S. Benjamin   +7 more
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A Case Report of Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Pericardiectomy for Postpericardiotomy Recurrent Loculated Pericardial Effusion

open access: yesJournal of Medical Sciences
Surgical drainage, particularly pericardiotomy, which has a low recurrence rate, can safely and efficiently treat symptomatic pericardial effusion in patients with cancer.
Hao-Wen Chang, Chen-Liang Tsai
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for right ventricular failure following pericardiectomy.

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2019
We report the case of a 61-year-old gentleman who underwent pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis. Constrictive pericarditis was diagnosed through echocardiogram, computed tomography chest and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Hasham Ahmad   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of B-type natriuretic peptide and left ventricular dysfunction in patients with constrictive pericarditis undergoing pericardiectomy

open access: yesAnnals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2010
Chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP) due to tuberculosis has high morbidity and mortality in the periopeartive period following pericardiectomy because of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction.
Kapoor Poonam   +5 more
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Re-pericardiectomy for recurrent chronic constrictive pericarditis: left anterolateral thoracotomy is a better approach

open access: yesJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2019
Background Pericardiectomy is the final treatment for constrictive pericarditis. However, this greatest surgical approach is still very controversial. This study pursued to assess the outcomes in patients with recurrent chronic constrictive pericarditis ...
Ling Yunfei, Li Tao, Qian Yongjun
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The initiative to investigate the management of Pericarditis in Africa (IMPI) Registry : a substudy on the causes of constrictive pericarditis and predictors of mortality in patients with constrictive pericarditis requiring pericardiectomy at Groote Schuur Hospital (The Constrictive Pericarditis Substudy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Causes of constrictive pericarditis and predictors of peri-operative outcome following pericardiectomy are not clearly elucidated, especially in Africa, where disease characteristics differ from developed countries. Furthermore, the impact of
Mutyaba, Arthur Kaggwe
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