1. Posterior Pericardial Drainage in Patients with Heart Surgery
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Alsuhaymi Zuhair Hamdan A, Yazid Ali M Algadhi, Mohammad Noor Qadrouh, Raed Saleh G Alanazi, Badr Fouad H Mogharbel, Tamanni Muhsen M. Alghamdi, Mohammed Baqer Al Khalaf, Mojahid Ibrahim H Ghazi, Afnan Hedian M Alsofyani, Khalid Alghamdi, Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim Mosa, and Ibrahim MohammedMahdi Khayyat
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Atrial fibrillation ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Cochrane Library ,medicine.disease ,Pericardial effusion ,Confidence interval ,law.invention ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Cardiac tamponade ,medicine ,Observational study ,business ,Survival rate - Abstract
Aim of the Study: To assess the merits and demerits of posterior pericardial drainage in patients undergoing heart surgery. Materials and Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials was conducted. We searched for relevant trials in the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE (from 1980), Embase from 1970 the Transfusion Evidence Library from 1980, and ongoing trial databases; all searches current to 30 September 2017. Results: The search yielded Sixteen randomized controlled trials which included 2755 patients. Results revealed that Posterior pericardial drainage was associated with a significant 90% reduction of the odds of cardiac tamponade versus the control group: (OR 95% confidence interval) 0.13; P
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- 2017
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