J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 81(7): 616-621, 1980
Original article
LATE RESULTS OF PERICARDIECTOMY FOR CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS
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The First Department of Surgery, University of Nagoya School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan Mitsuya Murase, et al. |
Cardiac function was evaluated using liver swelling and peripheral venous pressure for right ventricular function, and endsystolic volume, enddiastolic volume, stroke volume, ejection fraction and fiber shortening calculated from echocardiographic measurement for left ventricular function.
Cardiac function after a long period was remarkably improved compared with preoperative state, but was not so much as of normal subjects.
Pericardiectomy is a very effective treatment for constrictive pericarditis and its beneficial effects are maintained for a long time, but cardiac function is not so recovered as normal level due probably to readhesion and fibrotic changes of the myocardium.
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