Severe adhesive constrictive pericarditis after coronary artery bypass.
The patient described presented with typical clinical symptoms of constrictive pericarditis nine months after triple saphenous vein bypass. No cause could be found. Cardiac catheterization confirmed the clinical diagnosis. At pericardiectomy a severely thickened pericardium which was intimately adherent to the heart and great vessels made its resection technically impossible.
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000209:etiology*