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Postpericardiotomy Syndrome

Known as: POST PERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME, Postpericardiotomy Syndrome [Disease/Finding], Postpericardiotomy Syndromes 
A nonspecific hypersensitivity reaction caused by TRAUMA to the PERICARDIUM, often following PERICARDIOTOMY. It is characterized by PERICARDIAL… 
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Postcommissurotomy Syndrome

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Review
2014
Review
2014
Diagnosis and Management of the Postpericardiotomy Syndrome
The present review is aimed at the presentation of recent updates on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of the… 
2009
2009
[Postpericardiotomy syndrome: risk factors and methods of diagnosis].
This study was designed to identify major risk factors of PCTS and elucidate the possibility of early laboratory diagnosis of… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Are we missing something? What really is the post cardiotomy syndrome?
Wessman and Stafford 1 in this issue of the SMJ review the conundrum of the post–cardiac injury syndrome (PCIS). Many physicians… 
1984
1984
Late Cardiac Tamponade in Children: A Lethal Complication
Late cardiac tamponade is an infrequent complication of pediatric cardiac surgery. It is usually accompanied by the… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
[Late tamponade after heart surgery: a dreadful diagnostic pitfall].
In a series of 250 consecutive open-heart operations, three cases of late cardiac tamponade were noted following the operation… 
Review
1981
Review
1981
Delayed Cardiac Tamponade Following Open Heart Surgery Analysis of 12 Patients
The present report reviews our experience with 12 cases of delayed cardiac tamponade following open heart surgery, which occurred… 
1980
1980
Treatment of uremic pericardial effusion by local steroid instillation via subxiphoid pericardiotomy.
Seven maintenance hemodialysis patients suffering from intractable uremic pericardial effusion were treated with instillation of… 
1979
1979
Postpericardiotomy syndrome diagnosed by echocardiography.
In order to evaluate the present incidence of post-pericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) and the reliability of conventional diagnostic… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Echocardiographic studies of children operated on for congenital heart disease; evaluation in the immediate postoperative period.
In the immediate postoperative period, echocardiography was used to study left ventricular function in 69 children after… 
1973
1973
Delayed febrile pleuropericarditis after sepsis. A possible analogue of the postcardiotomy syndrome.