Abstract:Introduction:
Pericardial drainage can be performed either with pericardiocentesis or pericardial “window” in cases with hemodynamic compromise for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. Awake single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is an alternative to pericardial window (PW) that has been described only in case reports in the literature. We aimed to analyse a series of patients with chronic, recurrent and/or large pericardial effusions who underwent single-port VATS-PW opening witho… Show more
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