Krassas Athanassios, Sakellaridis Timothy, Argyriou Michalis, Charitos Christos
2nd Cardiac Surgery Department, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2012 Jun;14(6):875-7. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivs057. Epub 2012 Mar 8.
Pyopericardium is a rare entity associated with a high mortality. We report a case of a 44-year old man presenting with simultaneous constrictive pericarditis and pyopericardium due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Pericardiectomy and epicardiectomy were performed without cardiopulmonary bypass, with an excellent result.
脓性心包炎是一种罕见的疾病,死亡率很高。我们报告一例44岁男性患者,因白喉棒状杆菌同时出现缩窄性心包炎和脓性心包炎。在未进行体外循环的情况下进行了心包切除术和心外膜切除术,效果良好。