Life-saving pericardiectomy in cardiogenic shock due to impairment of diastolic pump function by myocardial swelling.
Pericardiectomy was remarkably effective in relieving intractable cardiogenic shock resulting from impaired diastolic pump function due to severe myocardial swelling in a 40-year-old woman. The operation restored cardia pump function by counteracting the reduction of left ventricular compliance.
Asou
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Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kawachi
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Imaizumi
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Tokunaga
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D000328:Adult; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000150:complications*; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications*; D004487:Edema / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010492:Pericardiectomy; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications