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Pericardiostomy

Known as: Window Technic, Pericardial, Window Technique, Pericardial, Pericardial Window Technique 
Surgical construction of an opening or window in the pericardium. It is often called subxiphoid pericardial window technique.
National Institutes of Health

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CDISC SDTM Procedure TerminologyCardiovascular systemClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyEducational aspects

Broader (3)

Fenestration (morphologic abnormality)Fenestration procedureIncision and drainage

Narrower (1)

Tube pericardiostomy

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2004
2004
Phase II Study of Feasibility of Dose-Dense FEC Followed by Alternating Weekly Taxanes in High-Risk, Four or More Node-Positive Breast Cancer
Purpose: To develop a potentially superior adjuvant chemotherapy regimen, we conducted a pilot study of dose-dense 5-fluorouracil… 
1998
1998
Thoracoscopic limited pericardial resection with an ultrasonic scalpel.
Review
1995
Review
1995
Carpentier-Edwards pericardial bioprosthesis in aortic position: long-term follow-up 1980 to 1994.
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Unsuspected cardiac abnormalities in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. An echocardiographic study.
To investigate the frequency of unsuspected cardiac abnormalities in AIDS, M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiograms were… 
1986
1986
Pericardioscopy as adjunct to pericardial window.
A technique for pericardioscopy at the time of subxiphoid pericardial window was evaluated in 17 patients undergoing surgery for… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Ventricular Diastolic Pressure‐Volume Relations and the Pericardium: Effects of Changes in Blood Volume and Pericardial Effusion in Dogs
We investigated the role of the pericardium in the mechanism of shifts in the left ventricular (LV) diastolic pressure-volume… 
1974
1974
Pericardiectomy in uremia. The treatment of choice for cardiac tamponade in chronic renal failure.
Pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade in chronic renal failure is treated conventionally by aggressive dialysis, repeated… 
1971
1971
Pericardial cysts, tumors, and fat necrosis.
1970
1970
Pleural pericardial window for palliation of cardiac tamponade due to cancer
Cardiac tamponade due to metastatic cancer may be successfully palliated by creation of a pleural pericardial window. Four… 
Review
1947
Review
1947
Pericardial celomic cysts.
In the presidential address before the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery at Cleveland… 
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