Pigtail saves a twisted redo: successful management of chylopericardium after midline valve surgery

Autor: Aayush Goyal, Rohit Shahapurkar, Balaji Aironi, Ninad Kotkar, Ankur Goel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 53-55 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2008-5117
2008-6830
DOI: 10.15171/jcvtr.2018.09
Popis: Pericardial effusion after midline cardiac surgery may be transudative or exudative. The exudative infective or haemorrhagic variety requires early surgical intervention. However there are rare cases of collections like chylomediastinum which should be ruled out. Their low incidence prompts to establish protocol for evaluating postoperative pericardial collections, which includes echocardiography and biochemical analysis of aspirate. The same is important from the perspective of management as chylopericardium may be successfully managed without surgical intervention by aspiration, pig tail insertion, dietary and medical management, which we demonstrate through our rare case which occurred after midline double valve replacement.
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