title: [Experience with the surgical management of constrictive pericarditis].
abstract: 61 patients were operated on for constrictive pericarditis at the Cardiovascular Surgical Clinic of Semmelweis Medical University in the last 33 years. The average hospital mortality of the surgical pericardiectomy was 4.9%. The final conclusions of this retrospective and follow up study are as follows: pericardiectomy is the method of choice in the treatment of constrictive pericarditis, since it does not has any therapeutic alternative, its hospital mortality is low and it results excellent early and late postoperative functional effects.
authors.affiliation: Semmelweis Orvostudományi Egyetem, Budapest.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szabolcs
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Horkay
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bodor
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bartha
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vecsey
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szabó
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008875:Middle Aged; D010492:Pericardiectomy / Q000379:methods; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Tapasztalataink a constrictiv pericarditis sebészi kezelésében.