Constrictive pericarditis complicating cardiac transplantation

Constrictive pericarditis is a disease characterized by progressive pericardial fibrosis. If left untreated it can lead to progressive heart failure and can be severely disabling. Medical management with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in combination with colchicine is promising in the acute p...

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Autores principales: Umer, Affan, Khalid, Nauman, Chhabra, Lovely, Memon, Sarfaraz, Spodick, David H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26302865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0314-x
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author Umer, Affan
Khalid, Nauman
Chhabra, Lovely
Memon, Sarfaraz
Spodick, David H.
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description Constrictive pericarditis is a disease characterized by progressive pericardial fibrosis. If left untreated it can lead to progressive heart failure and can be severely disabling. Medical management with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in combination with colchicine is promising in the acute phase of the disease but for more chronic cases pericardiectomy offers the best chance for hemodynamic recovery. Constrictive pericarditis after cardiac transplantation is a rare phenomenon. Current literature suggests that early pericardiectomy may be the most effective treatment in this subset of patients as well.
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spelling pubmed-45491042015-08-26 Constrictive pericarditis complicating cardiac transplantation Umer, Affan Khalid, Nauman Chhabra, Lovely Memon, Sarfaraz Spodick, David H. J Cardiothorac Surg Letter to the Editor Constrictive pericarditis is a disease characterized by progressive pericardial fibrosis. If left untreated it can lead to progressive heart failure and can be severely disabling. Medical management with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in combination with colchicine is promising in the acute phase of the disease but for more chronic cases pericardiectomy offers the best chance for hemodynamic recovery. Constrictive pericarditis after cardiac transplantation is a rare phenomenon. Current literature suggests that early pericardiectomy may be the most effective treatment in this subset of patients as well. BioMed Central 2015-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4549104/ /pubmed/26302865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0314-x Text en © Umer et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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