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- Title
Isolated Chylopericardium after Mitral Valve Replacement: the First Description of Adult Heart Disease in Korea.
- Authors
Su Wan Kim; Seogjae Lee
- Abstract
Isolated chylopericardium as a complication of cardiac surgery is very rare. Two cases of chylopericardium have been previously reported in Korea; both patients suffered from chylopericardium after a corrective cardiac surgery for a congenital heart disease such as atrial or ventricular septal defect. We report a case of chylopericardium in a 55-year-old mitral valve replacement patient. The reason for chylopericardium was unclear, but it might have been related with the damaged lymph nodes and blunt dissection of the thymus. While most chylopericardium cases require surgical intervention, we managed this chylopericardium case with a low-fat diet for 3 days.
- Subjects
KOREA; PERICARDIAL effusion; MITRAL valve prolapse; HEART diseases; DISEASES in adults; VENTRICULAR septal defects
- Publication
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1229-4802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4266/kjccm.2014.29.2.123