Pericardiectomy for Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: Where are we after 100 Years?

Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury and Lakshmi Kumari Sankhyan

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

^*Correspondance to: Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury 

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Abstract:

This study attempts to address several controversies that surround an important disease entity, chronic constrictive pericarditis with reference to an optimal surgical approach, the extent of decortication which can be achieved by individual surgical approaches, its optimal surgical timings, the requirement for cardiopulmonary bypass, and the management of postoperative low cardiac output syndrome following pericardiectomy in the present era.

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Chowdhury UK, Sankhyan LK. Pericardiectomy for Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: Where are we after 100 Years? World J Surg Surgical Res. 2018; 1: 1027.