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Radical Pericardiectomy for Pericardial Diseases

Current Cardiology Reports, 2019
The surgical management of constrictive pericarditis has evolved from a partial pericardiectomy via a thoracotomy approach to a more extensive removal of the pericardium. This review summarizes the published studies regarding surgical management of pericardial disease, focusing on the surgical technique of radical pericardiectomy for constrictive ...
Douglas R. Johnston, Shinya Unai
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Addisonian Crisis following Pericardiectomy

Cardiovascular Surgery, 1994
In developing countries tuberculosis is a common cause of constrictive pericarditis and its Involvement of other organs may sometimes complicate the surgical management of such patients. A case is reported of constrictive pericarditis in which the patient developed protracted hypotension which was unresponsive to inotropic therapy, following ...
S, Shah, A, Shah, E, Bhatia, A K, Ganjoo
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Pericardiectomy using an oscillating saw

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000
We describe the use of a microoscillating saw on the heart to remove calcific pericardium. This microoscillating saw proved indispensable to achieve a safe pericardiectomy in a 55-year-old woman with thick, severe idiopathic calcific constrictive pericarditis.
Aaron Casha, Venkat Chandrasekaran
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Pericardiectomy for Pericarditis in the Pediatric Population

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2009
Pericarditis requiring pericardiectomy is uncommon in the pediatric population. The aim of this study is to characterize our experience with this subset of patients.Between February 1978 and May 2008 pericardiectomy was performed on 27 pediatric patients (25 male).
Hartzell V. Schaff, Joseph A. Dearani, Jess L. Thompson, Harold M. Burkhart, Jae K. Oh, Frank Cetta   +5 more
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TREATMENT OF URÆMIC PERICARDITIS BY ANTERIOR PERICARDIECTOMY

The Lancet, 1974
Abstract Mortality, morbidity, and length of hospital stay have been evaluated in 16 dialysis patients who developed pericarditis and were treated with anterior pericardiectomy followed by 24-48 hours of chest-tube drainage. There was no mortality and only minor morbidity.
S, Ali-Regiaba, R P, White, W A, Gay, K H, Stenzel, J F, Sullivan, R R, Riggio, L, Tapia, J S, Cheigh, D S, David, A L, Rubin   +9 more
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TREATMENT OF ACTIVE TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS BY PERICARDIECTOMY

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1951
Tuberculous pericarditis, chronic and insidiously progressive, frequently characterized in its early stages by an inflammatory effusion and culminating almost inevitably in great thickening and fibrous contraction of the diseased pericardium, presents real difficulties in its management.1From very inception, it poses the twofold problem of controlling ...
Emile Holman, Forrest Willett
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Ten Years Experience with Pericardiectomy

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 1996
A retrospective analysis was made of the records of 62 patients who underwent pericardiectomy over a ten year period (1985 to 1996) in our department. Primarily, 43 patients (69.4%) had tuberculosis, 16 patients (25.8%) were diagnosed as idiopathic or viral infection, 2 patients (3.2%) had a previous cardiac operation and 1 patient (1.6%) had a ...
Birol Yamak, Kemal Bayazit, Oğuz Taşdemir, Tulga Ulus, Ahmet Saritaş, Binali Mavitaş, Fehmi Katırcıoğlu   +6 more
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Pericardiectomy in children <15 years of age

Cardiology in the Young, 2013
AbstractBetween January, 2002 and December, 2011, 27 patients (19 boys) underwent pericardiectomy. The mean age was 9.3 ± 4.96 years (range 0.4 to 15 years) and the mean duration of symptoms was 16.9 ± 22.15 months. In all, 25 patients had dyspnoea; eight were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV; six had bacterial pericarditis; and 18 were on
Vishnubhatla Sreeniwas, Shyam S. Kothari, Sachin Talwar, Vinitha Viswambharan Nair, Balram Airan, Rajnish Juneja, Anita Saxena, Shiv Kumar Choudhary   +7 more
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Radical Pericardiectomy for Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, 2001
A retrospective analysis was undertaken in 79 patients who underwent pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis from January 1985 to February 1999. Most operations (77) were carried out with cardiopulmonary bypass, with subtotal pericardiectomy in 75 patients, and concomitant operations in 25.
Kazutomo Minami, Tadashi Omoto, Reiner Körfer, Dietmer Böthig, Dimitrios Varvaras   +4 more
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Thoracoscopic pericardiectomy for effusive pericardial disease

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1993
Thoracoscopic techniques were used to perform a pericardiectomy in 35 patients with purely effusive pericardial disease after medical management and pericardiocentesis had failed to be effective. There were no intraoperative complications and postoperative complications were few.
Paul E. Seifert, Paul E. Seifert, Tea E. Acuff, Tea E. Acuff, James E. Auer, James E. Auer, Stephen R. Hazelrigg, Stephen R. Hazelrigg, Michael J. Mack, Michael J. Mack, Rodney J. Landreneau, Rodney J. Landreneau   +11 more
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