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Severe Calcific Constrictive Pericarditis From Remotely Treated Tuberculosis. [PDF]

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Choi H   +5 more
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Pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis

The Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2020
Chronic constrictive pericarditis results from inflammation and fibrosis of the pericardium. This situation eventually leads to impairment of diastolic filling and right heart failure. Once the diagnosis is made, because the disease is basically irreversible, a pericardiectomy is the mandatory treatment.
Davide, Di Lazzaro   +4 more
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Experience with Pericardiectomy

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1973
Abstract A series of 102 therapeutic pericardiectomies is presented. Although the majority were performed for tuberculosis, those performed in the most recent decade have mainly been for effusion due to a variety of causes. Because of the lower operative mortality (11 vs.
R H, Dean   +3 more
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Transdiaphragmatic pericardiectomy in dogs

Veterinary Record, 2017
In patients with recurrent pericardial effusions, pericardiectomy is indicated. The purpose of this study was to describe a transdiaphragmatic approach for subtotal pericardiectomy in dogs and to evaluate its feasibility. In total, 20 canine cadavers weighing less than 10 kg (group S) and 20 weighing more than 20 kg (group L) were used.
M, De Ridder   +5 more
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Thoracopericardiotomy and Pericardiectomy in Cattle

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1979
SUMMARY Intrathoracic surgery was undertaken on 20 clinically normal cattle and on 9 cattle with traumatic pericarditis. In the clinically normal cattle, techniques of thoracotomy and pericardiotomy were attempted to study the feasibility of rib incision techniques for thoracotomy and to evaluate the efficacy of pericardiotomy as a treatment for ...
D, Krishnamurthy   +3 more
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Pericardiectomy: A changing scene

The American Journal of Surgery, 1984
The indications for pericardiectomy as well as the causal factors have changed in recent years. Sixty-eight patients operated on at the UCLA Medical Center between 1955 and 1982 have been described. There were 37 male patients and 31 female patients. The indication for operation was acute pericarditis in 37 patients, of whom 31 had recurrent effusion ...
J M, Robertson, D G, Mulder
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Radical pericardiectomy for pericardial diseases

The Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2021
Pericarditis is the most common form of pericardial disease. Its exact incidence remains unknown, probably because many cases resolve without diagnosis. Indications for pericardiectomy from the standpoint of the cardiac surgeon are based mainly on the physiopathology of 2 different entities that can overlap: inflammatory or relapsing pericarditis and ...
Gabriele M, Iacona   +2 more
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