Postpericardiotomy Syndrome Following Surgery for Nonrheumatic Heart Disease
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Postpericardiotomy syndrome following surgery for nonrheumatic heart disease.
Widespread intracardiac surgery of rheumatic heart disease has brought to medical attention a puzzling postoperative complication, usually designated the "posteommissurotomy syndrome" and often considered to represent reactivation of rheumatic fever. Herein are reported instances of an identical complication following intrapericardial surgery of congenital heart disease. It is suggested that th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1958
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.17.4.549