Should the pericardium be closed routinely after heart operations?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 484-488

  Rao, Vivek ^a   Komeda, Masashi ^a   Weisel, Richard D ^a,b   Cohen, Gideon ^a   Borger, Michael A ^a   David, Tirone E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADHESIONS; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STERNUM; STROKE VOLUME; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032892406     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01199-0     Document Type: Article

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