Key result
Pericardiectomy in a 50-year-old female with idiopathic constrictive pericarditis resulted in an uneventful recovery and improvement to NYHA class I at 3 months.
Case Report (n=1)
Pericardiectomy successfully treated a case of idiopathic constrictive pericarditis presenting with atypical chest X-ray calcification.
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Supports pericardiectomy for symptom relief in idiopathic constrictive pericarditis; hypothesis-generating and requires validation in larger cohorts.
Çoşkun et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Idiopathic Constrictive Pericarditis (n=1). Pericardiectomy was evaluated on Postoperative recovery and NYHA functional class. Pericardiectomy in a 50-year-old female with idiopathic constrictive pericarditis resulted in an uneventful recovery and improvement to NYHA class I at 3 months.
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