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

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Title:	Pigtail saves a twisted redo: successful management of chylopericardium after midline valve surgery
Authors:	Aayush Goyal, Rohit Shahapurkar, Balaji Aironi, Ninad Kotkar, Ankur Goel
Source:	Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 53-55 (2018)
Publisher Information:	Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2018.
Publication Year:	2018
Collection:	LCC:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Subject Terms:	chylopericardium, chylomediastinum, complication valve replacement, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
More Details:	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.
Document Type:	article
File Description:	electronic resource
Language:	English
ISSN:	2008-5117 2008-6830
Relation:	https://jcvtr.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/jcvtr-10-53.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2008-5117; https://doaj.org/toc/2008-6830
DOI:	10.15171/jcvtr.2018.09
Access URL:	https://doaj.org/article/da3f1aaa6ed549779a50a6e8f6c34484
Accession Number:	edsdoj.3f1aaa6ed549779a50a6e8f6c34484
Database:	Directory of Open Access Journals

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ISSN:	20085117 20086830
DOI:	10.15171/jcvtr.2018.09
Published in:	Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research
Language:	English