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Pharmacological preventions and treatments for pericardial complications after open heart surgeries

Heart BMJ

They included randomised controlled trials that enrolled adults undergoing major cardiac surgeries and reported postpericardiotomy syndrome, pericardial effusion and pericarditis as primary or secondary outcomes. to 0.81) and may prevent postoperative pericarditis (RR 0.66, 95% CI 0.45 95% CI 0.20 to 0.97) compared with control.

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Auscultating Cardiac Surgery in the DR Congo

Global Cardiac Surgery

This centre has 2 operating rooms: one for open-heart surgery and another for neurosurgery. Once they returned in 2017, the team performed open heart surgeries on two patients (Ventricular Septal Defect and Mitral Valve Replacement).