Our experience of total pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis: a comprehensive analysis over a period of 5 years.
Conclusions: Although pericardiectomy for CP remains associated with some operative mortality, the short-term outcome is favorable, and surgical treatment is able to improve the functional class in the majority of survivors.
PMID: 33552183 [PubMed]
Source: Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Tags: Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Source Type: research
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