TY - JOUR AU - Shah, Shahkar Ahmad AU - Bilal, Amer AU - Ahmad, Zahoor PY - 2011/09/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Surgical Treatment for Contrictive Pericarditis JF - Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute JA - J Postgrad Med Inst VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Original Article DO - UR - https://www.jpmi.org.pk/index.php/jpmi/article/view/537 SP - AB - <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="446"><colgroup span="1"><col span="1" width="446"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr height="170"><td class="xl65" width="446" height="170">Chronic constrictive pericarditis is a chornic inflammatory process that involves both fibrous and serious layers of the pericardium and leads to pericardial thickening and compression of the ventricles. The resultant impairement in diastolic filling reduces cardiac function. Pericardiectomy remains the treatment of cholice. A review of 52 cases at department of cardiothoracic surgery LRH, Peshawar is presented. There was a mortlaity of 7.7% and a morbidty of 28% . 51 of the 52 cases were tuberculous. In followup all surviving patients reverted to NHYA-I within three months of surgery. The surgical excision of pericardium remains the only available curative treatment for constrictive pericarditis.</td></tr></tbody></table> ER -