A pericardiectomy is sometimes needed to remedy this.
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When the portion of pericardium lying between the two phrenic nerves is excised it is called total pericardiectomy.
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He was honored several times by the American Medical Association for work on chronic postpneumonic empyema, and pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis.
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In cases where total pericardiectomy is not possible, subtotal pericardiectomy is performed or, in extreme cases, a cruciate incision on the pericardium is performed.
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In cases where total pericardiectomy is not possible, subtotal pericardiectomy is performed or, in extreme cases, a cruciate incision on the pericardium is performed.
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A poor outcome is almost always the result after a pericardiectomy is performed for constrictive pericarditis whose origin was radiation-induced, further some patients may develop heart failure post-operatively.
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In 1928 he performed the first pericardiectomy in the United States in a collaboration with Dr . Paul D . White, for the treatment of constrictive pericarditis, and developed this treatment subsequently.
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"' CARDIOTHORACIC "' Thoracocentesis, pericardiocentesis, pleurodesis, ligation of thoracic duct, pleuroperitoneal shunt, radiation therapy, pleurectomy, pericardial window, pericardiectomy, thalidomide, interferon alpha 2b, Total Parenteral Nutrition ( TPN ), medium chain triglyceride ( MCT ) and high protein diet, chemotherapy, sclerotherapy, transplant;
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