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Constrictive pericarditis: etiology and cause-specific survival after pericardiectomy

Stefan C. Bertog, MD^*, Senthil K. Thambidorai, MD^*, Kapil Parakh, MD^*, Paul Schoenhagen, MD^*, Volkan Ozduran, MD^*, Penny L. Houghtaling, MS, Bruce W. Lytle, MD, FACC, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, FACC, Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC^* and Allan L. Klein, MD, FACC^*,*

^* Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

View larger version (18K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves showing a significant difference (log-rank test, p = 0.0075) in overall survival of patients after pericardiectomy, based on the presumed cause of constrictive pericarditis.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier curves showing survival after pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis according to tertiles of multivariable risk score. See Table 2 for details.