Time To Strip The Heart? Opportune Timing Of Pericardiectomy In Treatment Of Idiopathic Constrictive Pericarditis
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY(2020)
Abstract
Idiopathic constrictive pericarditis is a chronic inflammatory process ultimately leading to low cardiac output and advanced heart failure if untreated. The only definitive treatment is complete pericardiectomy; a long, technically complex and dangerous procedure. Timing of surgery is important as
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pericardiectomy,heart,opportune timing,treatment
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