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Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis (CCP) in Africa: Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis, and Surgical Treatment [PDF]

, 2019
Chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP) is not rare in Africa with tuberculosis as the most common etiology. A long history of visceral tuberculosis, typical symptoms of CCP because of late clinical presentation in most cases, make diagnosis almost easy ...
Yangni-Angate, Koffi Herve
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Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Cerebrovascular Strokes After Cardiac Surgery: Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes

Critical Care Research and Practice, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background: Many studies have attempted to determine the incidence, predictors, and outcomes of cerebrovascular stroke after cardiac surgery, with different, sometimes contradictory, results because of differences in population risk profiles, study design, and surgical details.
Mohamed Laimoud, Mosleh Nazzal Alanazi, Patricia Machado, Mary Jane Maghirang, Suha Althibait, Shatha Al-Mutlaq, Munirah Alomran, Imad Bou-saad, Lamees Subhi, Reem Almutairi, Renad Nadhreen, Hamza Busaleh, Sreedevi Pillai, Saranya Sidharthan, Tareq Almazeedi, Zohair Al-Halees, Alessia Mattei   +16 more
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Pneumococcal Pyopericardium With Xiphoid Osteomyelitis in HIV/AIDS: A Rare but Potentially Fatal Complication

Case Reports in Cardiology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Background: Purulent pericarditis is a rare, life‐threatening condition that has become exceedingly uncommon due to widespread use of antibiotics. However, immunocompromised patients remain susceptible to such opportunistic infections. It is typically caused by direct extension or hematogenous spread from a secondary bacterial source. Case Description:
Nihar Jena, Izza Saeed, Mackenzie Hamilton, Christian Tocquica, Sreekant Avula, Ramiz Sayyed, Juan Bastidas, Mark Studeny, Kathleen Ngu   +8 more
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Surgical management of constrictive pericarditis [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Constrictive pericarditis is a disease characterized by marked thickening and dense scarring of the pericardium with pericardial sac obliteration, or calcification of the pericardium.
Aniteye, E, Edwin, F, Entsuamensah, K, Frimpong-boateng, K, Kotei, D, Sereboe, L, Tamatey, M, Tettey, m   +7 more
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IgG4‐related constrictive pericarditis with previous asbestos exposure: A case report and literature review

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 3, Page 2353-2360, June 2025.
Ryohei Ono, Hiroki Kohno, Chihiro Ito, Kaoruko Aoki, Hirotoshi Kato, Togo Iwahana, Sakurako Harada‐Kagitani, Jun‐Ichiro Ikeda, Yoshio Kobayashi   +8 more
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Experience of Pericardiectomy in Tikur Anbessa University Hospital, Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Pericardiectomy is the only accepted curative treatment for improving cardiac haemodynamics in chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP).
Ali, Adem, Bekele, A, Biluts, H
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Protecting Sight During Cardiac Surgery: Mechanisms, Risks, and Management of Perioperative Ocular Complications

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Ophthalmic complications during a major cardiac surgery are rare but may have serious consequences. Patients requiring intraoperative support from a cardiopulmonary bypass machine have an increased risk of developing ocular adverse effects because of significant hemodynamic alterations involving the systemic and ocular vasculature.
Ye In Christopher Kwon, Yeseo Kwon, Michelle Burmistrova, David T. Zhu, Alan Lai, Andrew Min-Gi Park, Dean Zhang, David J. Ramsey, Michael P. Robich, Ahmet Kilic, Josue Chery, Vigneshwar Kasirajan, Zubair A. Hashmi, Amanda Dianne Saab   +13 more
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The optimal duration of anti-tuberculous therapy before pericardiectomy in constrictive tuberculous pericarditis

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Background It is unclear about the duration of anti-tuberculous therapy before pericardiectomy (DATT) in the patients with constrictive tuberculous pericarditis.
Likui Fang, Guocan Yu, B. Ye, Fangming Zhong, Gang Chen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Case Report of Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Pericardiectomy for Postpericardiotomy Recurrent Loculated Pericardial Effusion

Journal 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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Principles of radical pericardiectomy [PDF]

Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 2020
Chin Siang Ong, Thoralf M Sundt
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