Constrictive pericarditis: Risks, aetiologies and outcomes after total pericardiectomy: 24 years of experience

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1023-1028

  Szabó, Gábor ^a,b   Schmack, Bastian ^a   Bulut, Cem ^a   Soós, Pál ^b   Weymann, Alexander ^a   Stadtfeld, Susanne ^a   Karck, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Constrictive complications surgery; Pericardiectomy; Pericarditis; Retrospective Studies; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONSTRICTIVE/COMPLICATIONS/SURGERY; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84887743436     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: 1873734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezt138     Document Type: Article

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