PURPOSE To use fascia lata instead of pericardium and observe the presence of adhesions. METHODS Twenty rabbits were divided into two group of ten. In group A, a 1×1 cm segment of pericardium was excised and resutured. In group B excised pericardium was substituted for autologous fascia lata. RESULTS In the comparison of microscopic adhesion rate between two groups A, B after eight weeks, t...

We have assessed viscoelastic properties of pericardium within the physiological range of stresses and related mechanical behavior to fiber direction as defined by scanning electron microscopy. Stiffness, stress relaxation, and creep were measured in samples taken from the anterior surface of 14 canine pericardia. Stress-strain relations generally were not exponential; stiffness at a stress of ...

Acute pericardial diseases include acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade. Both conditions can be associated with acute hemodynamic instability or cardiac failure and require immediate diagnostic workup and treatment. The pericardium surrounds the heart with two layers. The outer fi brous layer is called the parietal pericardium; the inner layer, which covers the cardiac surface, is the serou...

This work assesses the effect of lyophilization on the cytotoxicity and residual aldehyde concentration of glutaraldehyde-treated and lyophilized bovine pericardium (group A), comparing it to conventional glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardium (group B). Cytotoxicity was measured by incubating a pericardium sample from each group in saline and assessing the eluant's influence on cellular gro...

The Task Force on the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology artj.oxdjournals.o Task Force members, Bernhard Maisch, Chairperson* (Germany), Petar M. Seferovi c (Serbia and Montenegro), Arsen D. Risti c (Serbia and Montenegro), Raimund Erbel (Germany), Reiner Rienm€ uller (Austria), Yehuda Adler (Israel), Witold Z. Tomkowski (Poland), Gaetano Thie...

BackgroundAnimal-derived pericardium is a key material that enables the successful clinical use of bioprosthetic heart valves. Recently, transcatheter valves have placed more emphasis on enhancement this tissue, especially in terms producing uniform, thin, durable tissue. In study, we provide new method to achieve thinner tissue and insights into how consistent which potentially may lead valves...

a 47-year-old man presented as a dyspnea and fatigue. a transthoracic echocardi-ography (tte) performed to assess valvar heart disease and left ventricular (lv) function showed a large hydatid cysts in the inter ventricular septum bulging to posterior of heart and compressing its overlying muscle as whitish round mass. the patient underwent elective surgery by evacuation of septal hydatid cysts...

introduction: this study seeks to discuss the light wave transport characteristics variation along the pericardium meridian under different pressures. methods: we selected 36 healthy students at the school for this study, tied up the desktop blood pressure cuff onto subjects’right proximal arms, fixed the detection probe immovably on the neiguan (pc6) acupoint and the reference point which was ...

We report a rare case of bronchogenic cyst associated with congenital complete absence of the pericardium. A 17-year-old male was admitted to the hospital for surgical resection of a growing cystic lesion located in the middle mediastinum. The patient was asymptomatic and no significant findings were found on physical examination. Resection of the mediastinal cyst was performed by video-assiste...