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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 58, 1171-1174, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Mitral insufficiency after pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis

RE Buckingham Jr, AP Furnary, MT Weaver, HS Floten and RF Davis
Anesthesiology Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 97201-1034.

We report the case of a 24-year-old man in whom a clinical syndrome developed while he was on active military duty in Saudi Arabia that was subsequently diagnosed as constrictive pericarditis. Phrenic nerve to phrenic nerve pericardiectomy and posterior pericardial release successfully relieved the ventricular constriction with a resultant increase in the cardiac index from 1.9 to 3.8 L.min-1.m-2. Transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring during the operation disclosed trace mitral regurgitation before median sternotomy. The severity of the regurgitation noticeably increased to the moderate level immediately after pericardial resection. This echocardiographic finding had improved 1 week later, but the regurgitation still was greater than baseline. Mitral valve function had returned to baseline by 4 weeks after the operation. Possible mechanisms of this evolving pattern of perioperative mitral valve dysfunction are discussed.


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