Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis with or without Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2024 Feb 8:20:39-46. doi: 10.2147/VHRM.S439292. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

Aim: We aim to access the effect of pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis with or without cardiopulmonary bypass.

Methods: This was a review of pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.

Results: Cardiopulmonary bypass is actually an important maneuver to attain complete relief of the constriction. The short additional time of cardiopulmonary bypass during the procedure has very little effect on the risk of morbidity of the main operation.

Conclusion: Incomplete pericardiectomy perhaps was the cause of postoperative remnant constriction and high diastolic filling pressure leading to multiorgan failure. Complete pericardiectomy (removal of phrenic-to-phrenic and the postero-lateral and inferior wall pericardial thickening) using cardiopulmonary bypass should be the routine for total relief of the constriction of the heart.

Keywords: cardiopulmonary bypass; constrictive pericarditis; pericardiectomy.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cardiopulmonary Bypass / adverse effects
  • Humans
  • Pericardiectomy / adverse effects
  • Pericardiectomy / methods
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive* / diagnostic imaging
  • Pericarditis, Constrictive* / surgery
  • Postoperative Complications

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 81360014), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi (No: 2014GXNSFAA118234), the Guangxi key scientific and technological project (No: 2013BC26236), and the Projects in Guangxi Health Department (No: GZPT13-27).