Pigtail saves a twisted redo: successful management of chylopericardium after midline valve surgery

Goyal, Aayush and Shahapurkar, Rohit and Aironi, Balaji and Kotkar, Ninad and Goel, Ankur (2018) Pigtail saves a twisted redo: successful management of chylopericardium after midline valve surgery. Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, 10 (1). pp. 53-55. ISSN 2008-5117

[thumbnail of jcvtr-10-53.pdf] Text
jcvtr-10-53.pdf - Published Version

Download (288kB)

Abstract

Pericardial effusion after midline cardiac surgery may be transudative or exudative. The exudative infective or haemorrhagic variety requires early surgical intervention. However there are rare cases of collections like chylomediastinum which should be ruled out. Their low incidence prompts to establish protocol for evaluating postoperative pericardial collections, which includes echocardiography and biochemical analysis of aspirate. The same is important from the perspective of management as chylopericardium may be successfully managed without surgical intervention by aspiration, pig tail insertion, dietary and medical management, which we demonstrate through our rare case which occurred after midline double valve replacement.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Research Asian Plos > Medical Science
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email support@research.asianplos.com
Date Deposited: 06 May 2023 10:07
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2024 08:21
URI: http://abstract.stmdigitallibrary.com/id/eprint/719

Actions (login required)

View Item
View Item