Treatment and Prophylaxis of Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome in Cardiac Surgery Patients: a Systematic Review.

Omar GiacintoAlessandro MinatiMario LusiniFrancesco CardettaSara SaltarocchiMizar D'AbramoFabio MiraldiMassimo Chello

Published in: Cardiovascular drugs and therapy (2021)

Better outcomes have been registered when colchicine and indomethacin were administered as primary prophylactic agents in preventing PPS and PE. Further RCT studies are needed to confirm these results.

Keyphrases

cardiac surgery
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
acute kidney injury
prognostic factors
metabolic syndrome
adipose tissue