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  • Impact Factor: 1.809**
  • H-Index: 6
  • ISSN: 2474-1655
  • DOI: 10.25107/2474-1655
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  •  Endoscopy
  •  Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  •  Gastric Cancer
  •  Family Medicine and Public Health
  •  Forensic and Legal Medicine
  •  Renal Disease
  •  Dentistry and Oral Biology
  •  Cancer Clinic

Abstract

Citation: Ann Clin Case Rep. 2017;2(1):1325.DOI: 10.25107/2474-1655.1325

Waffle Procedure for Selected Patients with Constrictive Pericarditis

Arata Muraoka, Kei Aizawa and Yoshio Misawa

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery-Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan

*Correspondance to: Yoshio Misawa 

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Abstract:

Pericardiectomy is the standard procedure used to relieve hemodynamic conditions produced by constrictive pericarditis. Repeat surgery for constrictive pericarditis is associated with higher thirtyday mortality than that of an initial pericarpdiectomy. Constrictive epicardial thickness might lead to the repeat surgery in some cases. The waffle procedure, performed by incising the tight fibrotic epicardium in a crosshatched manner, releases the epicardial constriction, and it can be used to relieve the hemodynamic status produced by the constriction.

Keywords:

Waffle procedure; Constrictive pericarditis; Constrictive epicarditis; Pericardiectomy; Heart failure

Cite the Article:

Muraoka A, Aizawa K, Misawa Y. Waffle Procedure for Selected Patients with Constrictive Pericarditis. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2017; 2: 1325.

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