[Surgical therapy of uremic pericarditis (author's transl)].
During a five year period (January 1975 - September 1980) 33 patients, in a population of 262 chronic hemodialysis patients, were treated for uremic pericarditis. They all underwent a pericardiostomy either through a lateral (15 cases) or through a subxiphoid approach (18 cases). Immediate clinical relief occurred in all but one patient who showed a progressive cardiac failure even after drainage. Operative mortality was absent and complications were minimal. There were two recurrences of pericardial effusion after an initial lateral approach through thoracotomy. A subsequent partial pericardectomy was successful in both cases.
D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D014511:Uremia / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy
Heelkundige behandeling van uremische pericarditis.