TIME TO STRIP THE HEART? OPPORTUNE TIMING OF PERICARDIECTOMY IN TREATMENT OF IDIOPATHIC CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS

Autor:	Adeyemi Taiwo, Lauren Vaughan, Courtney Saunders
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Constrictive pericarditis medicine.medical_specialty Cardiac output business.industry medicine.medical_treatment medicine.disease Heart failure Internal medicine cardiovascular system medicine Cardiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pericardiectomy business
Zdroj:	Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 75:3267
ISSN:	0735-1097
DOI:	10.1016/s0735-1097(20)33894-8
Popis:	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
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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