Postoperative pericardial effusion and posterior pericardiotomy, related or not?

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bakhshandeh, Ali Reza ^a   Salehi, Mehrdad ^a   Radmehr, Hasan ^a   Sattarzadeh, Roya ^a   Nasr, Ahmad Reza ^a   Sadeghpour, Amir Hosein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOTOMY; POSTERIOR PERICARDIOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; IRAN; METHODOLOGY; PERICARDIECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649668874     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20081143     Document Type: Article

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