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Combined surgical management of tuberculous constrictive pericarditis and coronary artery disease

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The combination of constrictive pericarditis and coronary artery disease is rarely reported in medical literature. Constrictive pericarditis occurs after cardiac operations in 0.2–0.3 % of cases. Normal coronary vessels can be involved in the inflammatory process of constrictive pericarditis by scar tissue. The association between tuberculosis and coronary artery disease is rare. Obliteration of coronary vessels may occur in rare cases of tuberculous aortitis. We present a case of coronary artery disease associated with tuberculous constrictive pericarditis. Combined treatment by total pericardiectomy and coronary artery bypass surgery was successful.

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  1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem, 22110, P.O.Box 19482, Israel

    Ahmad Khaled Darwazah

  2. Department of Cardiology, Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

    Raed Abdel Rahim Hasan Abu Sham’a, Jamal Aloul & Nidal Shawkat Kamal

  3. Department of Pathology, Makassed Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

    Barakat Sharabati

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Darwazah, A.K., Sham’a, R.A.R.H.A., Aloul, J. et al. Combined surgical management of tuberculous constrictive pericarditis and coronary artery disease. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 23, 263–266 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-007-0055-0

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