TY - JOUR
T1 - Constrictive pericarditis
T2 - Early and late complication of cardiac surgery
AU - Cohen, Michael V.
AU - Greenberg, Mark A.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Cohen is the‘recipient of Research Career Development Award HL 00281 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Manuscript received September 5, 1978; revised manuscript received October 18, 1978, accepted October 18. 1978.
PY - 1979/3
Y1 - 1979/3
N2 - Constrictive pericarditis is not considered a complication of cardiac surgery. However, three cases are presented in which equalization of diastolic pressures and the ventricular pressure pattern of early diastolic dip-late diastolic plateau, characteristic of restrictive disease, appeared after cardiac surgery. In one patient cardiac constriction developed less than 2 weeks after surgery, and loculated clotted and unclotted viscous blood was removed from the pericardial space. In the other two patients the pericardial space was obliterated by dense adhesions. Thus constrictive pericarditis should be considered in postoperative patients who either do not recuperate satisfactorily after surgery or whose condition deteriorates after initial recovery.
AB - Constrictive pericarditis is not considered a complication of cardiac surgery. However, three cases are presented in which equalization of diastolic pressures and the ventricular pressure pattern of early diastolic dip-late diastolic plateau, characteristic of restrictive disease, appeared after cardiac surgery. In one patient cardiac constriction developed less than 2 weeks after surgery, and loculated clotted and unclotted viscous blood was removed from the pericardial space. In the other two patients the pericardial space was obliterated by dense adhesions. Thus constrictive pericarditis should be considered in postoperative patients who either do not recuperate satisfactorily after surgery or whose condition deteriorates after initial recovery.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9149(79)90028-6
DO - 10.1016/0002-9149(79)90028-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 420115
AN - SCOPUS:0018361130
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 43
SP - 657
EP - 661
JO - The American Journal of Cardiology
JF - The American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 3
ER -