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n=75 patients with chronic exudative or constrictive pericarditis, excluding cases due to malignant tumor or…
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May support pericardiectomy in older constrictive pericarditis patients; leaves open the impact of shifting etiologies on outcomes.
Surgical treatment, primarily pericardiectomy, yields excellent results for chronic exudative and constrictive pericarditis, with a notable shift toward older patients and fewer tuberculous etiologies over a 30-year period.
Mizuno et al. (1983) studied this question.
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