Complications associated with the use of heterologous bovine pericardium for pericardial closure

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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

|September 1, 1986

Abstract:

Two complications necessitating removal of bovine pericardium used as a pericardial patch graft in 60 patients are reported. These complications, plus a few others reported in the literature, suggest that caution in the clinical use of bovine pericardium remains appropriate.

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