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A case report of combined radical pericardiectomy and beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with tubercular chronic constrictive pericarditis with coronary artery disease

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2017
We here report a successful midterm outcome following combined off-pump radical pericardiectomy and coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) in a 65-year-old male patient who was suffering from chronic constrictive calcified tubercular pericarditis with ...
Gauranga Majumdar, Surendra Kumar Agarwal, Shantanu Pande, Bipin Chandra, Prabhat Tewari   +4 more
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Pathological Findings of Canine Idiopathic Pericarditis and Pericardial Mesotheliomas: Correlation with Clinical and Survival Data

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
Idiopathic pericarditis (IP) and pericardial mesothelioma (PM) are causes of pericardial effusion in dogs. Pericardiectomy can be a definitive treatment in the case of idiopathic pericardial effusion or a short-term intervention for mesothelioma. The aim
Michela Levi, Federico Parenti, Luisa Vera Muscatello, Stefano Battaia, Roberto Santilli, Manuela Perego, Vincenzo Montinaro, Federico Massari, Giuseppe Sarli, Barbara Brunetti   +9 more
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Short term clinical and echocardiography outcomes of pericardiectomy in constrictive pericarditis [PDF]

Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 2021
Introduction: Tuberculous pericarditis continues to be a leading cause of chronic constrictive pericarditis (CCP) in developing countries. Echocardiography plays a key role in the assessment and diagnosis.
Madhur Kumar, Ajit Padhy, Ridhika Munjal, Anubhav Gupta   +3 more
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Constrictive pericarditis: 21 years´ experience and review of literature

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021
To the best of our knowledge there are no publications about Tunisian experience in constrictive pericarditis (CP); the aim of this study was therefore to review our twenty one years’ experience in terms of clinical and surgical outcomes and risk factors
Taamallah Karima, Ben Zaied Nesrine, Lahdhili Hatem, Ben Omrane Skander, Denguir Raouf, Chenik Selim   +5 more
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N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) as a noninvasive marker for restrictive syndromes [PDF]

, 2008
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) and restrictive cardiomyopathy share many similarities in both their clinical and hemodynamic characteristics and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a sensitive marker of cardiac diastolic ...
ARTEAGA, E., BUCK, P.C., FERNANDES, F., IANNI, B.M., MADY, C., NASTARI, L., RAMIRES, F.J.A., SALEMI, V.M.C.   +7 more
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An Unusual Case of Parasitic Constrictive Pericarditis

JACC: Case Reports, 2023
Parasitic constrictive pericarditis is a rare entity. We present a case of a 75-year-old man who presented with dyspnea, ascites, and pedal edema and was found to have constrictive pericarditis on multimodality imaging with positive serology for ...
Ankit Agrawal, MD, Ashwin K. Kumar, MD, Muhammad Majid, MD, Abdullah Yesilyaprak, MD, Beni Verma, MD, Aro Daniela Arockiam, MD, Osamah Badwan, MD, Alveena Batool Syed, MD, Allan L. Klein, MD   +8 more
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Assessment of left atrial volume before and after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundImpaired left ventricular diastolic filling is common in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), and recent studies support left ventricular underfilling as a cause.
Auger, William R, Blanchard, Daniel G, DeMaria, Anthony N, Kimura, Bruce J, Madani, Michael M, Marston, Nicholas A, Raisinghani, Ajit B, Strachan, G Monet   +7 more
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Piroxicam and intracavitary platinum-based chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced mesothelioma in pets: preliminary observations [PDF]

, 2008
Malignant Mesothelioma is an uncommon and very aggressive tumor that accounts for 1% of all the deaths secondary to malignancy in humans. Interestingly, this neoplasm has been occasionally described in companion animals as well. Aim of this study was the
Enrico P Spugnini, Stefania Crispi, Alessandra Scarabello, Giovanni Caruso, Gennaro Citro, Alfonso Baldi, BWS Robinson, J Peto, BT Mossman, EP Spugnini, EP Spugnini, M Carbone, A De Luca, JJ Manfredi, S Tomek, D Curran, AP Chahinian, MK Samson, SC White, A Hughes, HL Kindler, EP Spugnini, KW Head, CP Raflo, K Akiyama, B Bacci, Y Kobayashi, M Rinke, Y Suzuki, A Sparkes, AS Moore, KK Kerstetter, J Jackson, GK Ogilvie, GK Ogilvie, RL Stepien, LA Gallagher, SJ Birchard, A Porrello   +38 more
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Preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and outcome from coronary artery bypass grafting [PDF]

, 2007
Background: An elevated preoperative white blood cell count has been associated with a worse outcome after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Leukocyte subtypes, and particularly the neutrophil-lymphocyte (N/L) ratio, may however, convey superior ...
Buchan, Keith G., Croal, Bernard L., Cuthbertson, Brian, El-Shafei, Hussein, Gibson, George, Gibson, Patrick H., Hillis, Graham S., Ifezulike, Ada I., Jeffrey, Robert R., Small, Gary R.   +9 more
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Tissue‐retained needles in people who inject drugs: A systematic review of case reports and series on clinical presentations, complications and management

Addiction, Volume 121, Issue 6, Page 1381-1397, June 2026.
Abstract Background and aims Tissue‐retained needles from intravenous drug use can cause rare but severe complications, ranging from local to systemic infections to needle embolization. Due to the limited evidence and the lack of epidemiological studies on the issue, we systematically reviewed the literature focusing on case reports and case series on ...
Heidi Laukkala, Anna Nevalainen, Irina Rinta‐Kiikka, Samuel Heikkilä, Sisu Kiuru, Markku Sumanen, Otso Arponen, Olli Nevalainen   +7 more
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