Video-assisted transportal pericardial window

✍ Scribed by Selig, Michael B. ;Jafari, Nercy ;Sipes, Earl

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 433 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-6569
• DOI: 10.1002/ccd.1810330318

✦ Synopsis

Pericardial interventions for the diagnosis and treatment of pericardial disease has been evolving since the 17th century.

The controversy over opened or closed procedures, the optimal guidance modality, and techniques for the creation of pericardial windows continues to be debated. This report describes two patients who received the endoscopic approach to creating a pericardial window. o 1x14 wiiey-Liss, Inc.