Journal of Chest Surgery

The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (대한심장혈관흉부외과학회)
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Clinical Experience of Pericardial Effusion

심낭삼출 환자의 임상적 고찰

  • Published : 1995.05.01
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Abstract

We have experienced the 37 patients of pericardial effusion during last 8 years[1986-1993 . They were 17 male and 20 female patients, and their age range was 6months to 80 years.The causes of this pericardial effusion were 10 cases of tuberculosis, 7 cases of malignancy, 2 cases of acute pyogenic infection, 2 cases of postpericardiotomy pericardial effusion, 2 cases of trauma, 1 case of congenital heart disease, 1 case of SLE, and other 12 cases of unknown origin. All patients, except one, were managed by pericardiotomy with subxiphoid tube drainage. One case was managed by pericardiectomy. After operation, their symptoms and sign were dramaticaly improved. However, 3 patients were died postoperatively. Two of them were died of respiratory failure. One of them was died 28 months later with unrelated cause. They have already far advanced lung cancer. We conclude that the pericardiotomy with subxiphoid tube drainage was effective treatment in the patients with pericardial effusion.

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