Key result
Early pericardiectomy may offer the best chance for hemodynamic recovery in rare post-transplant constrictive pericarditis.
Population
Patients with constrictive pericarditis complicating cardiac transplantation
Design
Review
Authors
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Post-transplant constrictive pericarditis may warrant individualized pericardiectomy; leaves open optimal timing and outcomes in larger cohorts.
Early pericardiectomy is suggested as the most effective treatment for the rare complication of constrictive pericarditis following cardiac transplantation.
Umer et al. (2015) conducted a letter in Constrictive pericarditis. Pericardiectomy was evaluated. Constrictive pericarditis after cardiac transplantation is a rare phenomenon where early pericardiectomy may offer the best chance for hemodynamic recovery.
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