Pericardectomy
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The electrocardiographic findings of 1 8 patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis and their progress 16 to 80 months following radical pericardectomy were studied. Atrial fibrillation, abnormal P waves, right QRS axis deviation, low QRS complex voltage in the conventional leads as well as T wave inversion, were the common preoperative electrocardiographic findings. Following radical peri...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5223(19)40651-x