Percutaneous Balloon Pericardiotomy for Recurrent Malignant Pericardial Effusion
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[Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy in patients with recurrent pericardial effusion].
BACKGROUND Recurrent symptomatic pericardial effusion can complicate different cardiac and extracardiac diseases. When recurrent pericardial effusion after drainage with conventional catheter techniques occurred the creation of a pericardial window by open surgery used to be the unique treatment available until the recent development of percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy. OBJECTIVE The aim o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e318230860e