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Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis: 20 Years of Experience at the Montreal Heart Institute  Nicola Vistarini, MD, Christina Chen, BEng, Amine.

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1 Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis: 20 Years of Experience at the Montreal Heart Institute  Nicola Vistarini, MD, Christina Chen, BEng, Amine Mazine, MD, Denis Bouchard, MD, Yves Hebert, MD, Michel Carrier, MD, Raymond Cartier, MD, Philippe Demers, MD, Michel Pellerin, MD, Louis P. Perrault, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages (July 2015) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Preoperative evaluation of a patient with constrictive calcified pericarditis. (A) Chest roentgenogram. (B) Cardiac angiogram. (C) Chest computed tomographic scan. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier curve for survival after pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis in the entire cohort of patients (n = 99). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier curves for survival, comparing isolated pericardiectomy cases (n = 63) and pericardiectomy with associated procedures (n = 36). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

5 Fig 4 Changes over time in the proportion of NYHA (New York Heart Association) functional classes. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2015 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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