Pericardiectomy for a patient with constrictive pericarditis and multivessel coronary artery disease.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pericardiectomy for patients with constrictive pericarditis and multivessel coronary artery disease is rare. Therefore, there is limited experience of pericardiectomy in these patients.

Presentation of case

We performed only pericardiectomy under the support of intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) for a patient with tuberculous constrictive pericarditis and multivessel coronary artery disease who refused to accept revascularization. The postoperative course was uneventful.

Discussion

There is limited experience of pericardiectomy in patients with constrictive pericarditis and coronary artery disease, especially in those who want to perform only pericardiectomy and refuse to accept revascularization. There has only been one case report of a patient who had

SUBMITTER: Mo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6077153 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature