Constrictive Pericarditis in the Modern Era

Lieng Hsi Ling; Jae K. Oh; Hartzell V. Schaff; Gordon K. Danielson; Douglas W. Mahoney; James B. Seward; A. Jamil Tajik

doi:10.1161/01.cir.100.13.1380

September 28, 1999CirculationOpen Access

Constrictive Pericarditis in the Modern Era

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Why the study?

Does pericardiectomy improve symptoms and long-term prognosis in patients with constrictive pericarditis?

Key Points

Assess how evolving patient demographics and disease etiologies affect postoperative prognosis and long-term surgical success in constrictive pericarditis.
Evaluated patient demographic shifts and postoperative outcomes following pericardiectomy over the preceding decade.
Analyzed surgical outcomes across specific disease etiologies, focusing on radiation-induced constrictive pericarditis.
Patient profiles for constrictive pericarditis have shifted over the past decade toward older populations and higher frequencies of radiation-induced disease.
Long-term post-pericardiectomy outcomes are disappointing in selected subgroups, with the poorest prognosis observed in radiation-induced cases.
Surgical pericardiectomy successfully improves or resolves symptoms in the majority of late survivors.

Structured PICO

Does pericardiectomy improve symptoms and long-term prognosis in patients with constrictive pericarditis?

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Population

Patients with constrictive pericarditis, including older patients and those with radiation-induced disease

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Intervention

Pericardiectomy

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Outcome

Postoperative prognosis and symptom improvement

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Implication

While pericardiectomy improves symptoms in most late survivors of constrictive pericarditis, long-term prognosis remains poor for patients with radiation-induced disease.

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Ling et al. (1999) studied this question.

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