Calcified constrictive pericarditis treated with ultrasonic devices

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Chan J Park Kosuke Ujihira Satoru Osaki

Corresponding Author

Kosuke Ujihira
Division of Cardio-thoracic surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 High Land Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA

A B S T R A C T

A 52-year-old male patient was diagnosed as constrictive pericarditis with severe diastolic dysfunction, which was characterized by broadly calcified pericardium on fragile parts of the heart: the right atrium, both coronary vessels as well as the right and left ventricles. We successfully conducted a total pericardiectomy with an ultrasonic aspirator to break the calcified pericardium into smaller parts and an ultrasound scalpel to peel off the debris.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 05, Oct 2018
Accepted: Thu 25, Oct 2018
Published: Wed 14, Nov 2018

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© 2023 Kosuke Ujihira. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2018.03.012