Chronic Cardiac Compression (Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis)
- 1 December 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 4 (6), 816-835
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.4.6.816
Abstract
Sixty-one patients with chronic cardiac compression were studied critically, the largest series in the literature. All patients had pericardiectomy performed. The operative mortality was 18 per cent. Satisfactory result was obtained 72.1 per cent of the patients operated. Tuberculosis was the cause in 28.2 per cent. In most of the remaining cases the etiology was obscure. The symptoms, physical signs, and laboratory examinations are reported. The physiologic studies after operation demonstrate improved cardiac filling and emptying. The importance of diagnosis and the desirability of pericardiectomy are stressed. With antibiotic therapy there is less risk in operating patients with active infection and the compression syndrome.Keywords
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