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Pericardiectomy with stripping and a waffle procedure resolves pediatric constrictive pericarditis presenting with recurrent anasarca.
Pericardiectomy with pericardial stripping and a waffle procedure can be successfully used to treat constrictive pericarditis in a pediatric patient.
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May support pericardiectomy in rare pediatric constrictive pericarditis; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Moss et al. (2023) studied this question. Pericardiectomy with pericardial stripping and a waffle procedure successfully treated constrictive pericarditis in a 15-year-old pediatric patient presenting with recurrent anasarca.
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