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Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 578-581 (May 2010)


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Constrictive pericarditis after lung transplantation: An under-recognized complication

Wojtek Karolak, MD, Marcelo Cypel, MD, MSc, Fengshi Chen, MD, PhD, Lorretta Daniel, MD, Cecilia Chaparro, MD, Shaf Keshavjee, MD, MSc, FRCSCCorresponding Author Informationemail address

published online 08 March 2010.

Primary graft dysfunction, acute rejection, and infection account for most of the early morbidity after lung transplantation, with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome accounting for most late morbidity. Mediastinal and pericardial complications, in the form of constriction, are not common. We present 4 patients with constrictive pericarditis after lung transplantation and recommend that constrictive pericarditis be considered in the differential diagnosis in lung transplant recipients who present with signs and symptoms of systemic and pulmonary venous congestion.

Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Shaf Keshavjee, MD, MSc, FRCSC, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital, Thoracic Surgery, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada. Telephone: 416-340-4010. Fax: 416-340-4556

PII: S1053-2498(09)01513-7

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2009.11.606


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