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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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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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Radical pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2018
We studied the impact of radical pericardiectomy on early and long-term patient survival, postoperative New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class, and left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis compared to a sub-total pericardiectomy.From 1991 to 2016, 41 patients underwent pericardiectomy for chronic
Shahab Nozohoor, Maria Johansson, Bansi Koul, Doris Cunha-Goncalves   +3 more
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Chronic constrictive pericarditis treated with pericardiectomy

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1961
Abstract During the past ten years twenty-six patients have been operated upon at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital for the surgical correction of chronic constrictive pericarditis. There has been considerable variation in technical features of the operation, but with increasing experience the trend is toward one of two basic incisions: (1) the median ...
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Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis

Southern Medical Journal, 1970
Davis Np, Bryant Lr, Trinkle Jk
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Indications for pericardiectomy in the absence of constriction

1990
The indication for pericardiectomy is unequivocal in moderate or severe chronic constrictive pericarditis. Constrictive pericarditis has been the basic indication for pericardiectomy for more than fifty years. However, constrictive pericarditis is the common end stage of a variety of pericardial diseases and, in many cases, it implies a course of many ...
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