Pericardial Resection to Treat Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-02-02
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The researchers are doing this study to find out whether there will be less increase in cardiac filling pressure after the surgeon opens the pericardium (the membrane around the heart) than when the pericardium is intact. The researchers want to see whether opening the pericardium is an effective way to reduce the blood filling pressures in the heart.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic

Criteria

Inclusion

• >17 years old

• Subjects having open sternotomy for either aortic valve stenosis or coronary artery bypass grafting (or both)

• Provide informed consent Exclusion

• <18 years old