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Pericardiectomy using an oscillating saw
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leeds General Infirmary, United Kingdom.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 29, 2000
Abstract:
We describe the use of a microoscillating saw on the heart to remove calcific pericardium. This microoscillating saw proved indispensable to achieve a safe pericardiectomy in a 55-year-old woman with thick, severe idiopathic calcific constrictive pericarditis.