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  • Title: [Acute purulent pericarditis: clinical experience with primary pericardiectomy plus continuous pericardium lavage].
    Author: Yang JJ.
    Journal: Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi; 1992 Sep; 30(9):538-9, 571. PubMed ID: 1307330.
    Abstract:
    106 patients with acute purulent pericarditis were treated surgically with three different methods without operative mortality. The pericardiectomy plus continuous pericardial lavage was more effective than pericardiectomy without irrigation or simple pericardial drainage in several aspects, such as recovery of body temperature, elimination of infectious-toxic symptoms and cutting short hospitalization days. Besides, cardiac tamponade or late constriction of the pericardium could be avoided.
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