Encircling All Of The Heart By A Bone Cage Due To Chronic Constrictive Idiopathic Pericarditis

Abstract

The calcific deposits may vary in size from microscopic to massive, encircling all or most of the heart and readily visible by radiographic examination. In this study we're presenting a massive calcific pericardial heart disease due to idiopathic ethiology and encircling all of the heart .We're reporting the pathogenesis,clinical and surgical indications for operation,and the prognosis. Conventional open pericardiectomy via the median sternotomy , which enables a safer, wider, and more effective approach and it relieved the symptoms and altered the hemodynamic findings.