• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.487-490
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• 1995

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.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.729-734
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• 2010

11살된 암컷 푸들 (체중 2.3 kg)이 지속적인 기침, 호흡곤란, 운동불내성 및 식욕부진으로 내원하였다. 영상진단 검사 및 실험실 검사를 통해, 환자는 ISACHC Ib 단계의 이첨판 패쇄부전증이 합병된 특발성 출혈성 심낭수 유출증으로 진단되었다. 우측 흉벽에서 심낭에 접근하여 투시현미경의 조사 하에 엘리게이터 포셉과 카테터를 이용한 경피하 심낭 부분절개술을 실시하였다. 시술 직후 실시한 ECG 와 심초음파 검사에서 환자의 심장 기능은 크게 개선되었다. 환자는 경도의 이첨판 역류증과 술 후 감염을 관리하기 위해 furosemide (1 mg/kg, bid, PO), enalapril (0.5 mg/kg, bid, PO), cephradine (20 mg/kg, bid, PO)을 처방 받고 퇴원하였다. 2주 후 실시된 검사에서 심낭수는 발견되지 않았으며 임상증상은 크게 개선되어있었다. 현재는 이첨판 패쇄부전증에 대한 처치를 위해 enalapril을 투약 중이고, 주기적으로 환자를 모니터하고 있다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제39권9호
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• pp.702-705
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• 2006

대량의 심낭삼출액을 제거한 뒤 발생할 수 있는 심한 좌심실 부전에 관한 보고는 많지 않다. 심실 간의 용적 차이, 심장의 갑작스런 확장 그리고 교감신경계의 작용 등이 심실기능 부전의 원인으로 생각될 수 있다. 검상돌기하 심낭창을 통해 심장 압전을 완화한 뒤 심실 기능 부전이 발생한 두 증례를 보고하면서, 특히 심장수술 후 심장 압전이 있는 환자의 경우 혈류역학을 잘 관찰하면서 심낭삼출액을 서서히 제거할 것을 제안한다.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.12-15
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• 2017

A 58-year-old male visited our emergency room for multiple traumas from explosion. On initial evaluation, hemopneumoperitoneum with liver laceration (grade 4) and colon perforation was identified. Hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade was also identified. Shrapnel was detected in the right ventricle. Damage control surgery was planned due to condition of hypotension. In operation room, control over bleeding was achieved after sternotomy, pericardiotomy, and laparotomy. Massive transfusion was done during operation. After gauze packing, operation was terminated with temporary closure (TC). Sanguineous fluid was drained profusely. Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy was confirmed through laboratory findings. No extravasation was discovered at hepatic angiogram. On re-operation, there was no active bleeding but oozing from sternotomy site was identified. Bone bleeding was impossible to control. Finally, reoperation was ended after gauze packing and TC all over again. The patient could survive for only a day after re-operation.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.785-788
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• 1996

간농양에 이은 급성 화농성 심낭염은 드문 질환이다. 급성화농성 심낭염은 적절한 치료가 이루어지지 않을 경우 사망율이 매우 높은 위 험한 질환이다. 환자는 32세 남자 환자로 발열, 오한, 상복부동통 및 호흡곤란을 주소로 응급실로 내원 하였다. 단순 흉부사진상 심비대의 소견을 보이고 있었으며, 복부초음파상 간좌엽에 종괴가 있었다. 심초음파상 임박 심장압진의 소견을 보이고 있었다. 응급으로 횡격막천공을 통해 간농양을 배농시켰고 심낭절개술을 시 행하였다. 심낭은 비후되어 두꺼워져 있었고 600m1의 악취가 나는 농액과 괴사조직들이 배액되었다. 섬유소응괴(abrinclot)가심근과유착이 있었다 조직학적 검사상심낭은급성 염증소견과 미세한 괴사 소견을 보이고 있었고, 균배양검사상 혈액과 배농액 에서 모두 Escherichia coli가 나왔다. 환자는 항생제 치료 받고 4주만에 퇴원 했고 심초음파상 약간의 교착성 심낭염의 소견을 보였다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제70권4호
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• pp.347-351
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• 2011

We report here an unusual case of pericardial tuberculoma that was misdiagnosed as thymic carcinoma on an imaging study. A 48-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of an anterior mediastinal mass. Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest displayed cystic masses mimicking thymic carcinoma at the anterior mediastinum. Pericardiotomy and surgical drainage of the cystic masses were done, and pathologic examination of the excised pericardial specimen showed a chronic granulomatous inflammation with necrosis, compatible with tuberculosis. Acid-fast bacilli were also identified in the specimen. After treatment with anti-tuberculosis drugs and steroids, the patient showed clinical improvement. Although tuberculous pericarditis usually presents as pericardial effusion or constrictive pericarditis, it can also present as a pericardial mass mimicking thymic carcinoma on CT. Therefore, we suggest that tuberculous pericardial abscess should be included in the differential diagnosis of a mediastinal mass in Korea, with intermediate tuberculosis prevalence.