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An Armored Heart: A Diagnosis Hidden in Plain Sight. [PDF]

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Malkots B   +4 more
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Tricuspid Regurgitation in Tuberculous Constrictive Pericarditis Underwent Pericardiectomy

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Shuzhen Wang   +8 more
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Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Tricuspid Regurgitation Worsening After Pericardiectomy in Tuberculosis Constrictive Pericarditis: An Overlooked Prognostic Concern”

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Shuzhen Wang   +8 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.
Uberto Da Col   +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.
Rollin A. Daniel   +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 ...
John M. Robertson, Donald 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 ...
Douglas R. Johnston   +2 more
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