Pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis: A clinical, echocardiographic, and hemodynamic evaluation of two surgical techniques

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 522-529

  Chowdhury, Ujjwal K ^a   Subramaniam, Ganapathy K ^a   Kumar, A Sampath ^a   Airan, Balram ^a   Singh, Rajvir ^a   Talwar, Sachin ^a   Seth, Sandeep ^a   Mishra, Pankaj K ^a   Pradeep, Kizakke K ^a   Sathia, Siddhartha ^a   Venugopal, Panangipalli ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDITIS, TUBERCULOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31044431994     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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