tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy, both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson's disease"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy, both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson's disease. | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery BioMed Central Open Access Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson s disease Efstratios E Apostolakis1 Nikolaos G Baikoussis 1 Dimitrios Tselikos1 Ioanna Koniari1 Christos Prokakis1 Eleftherios Fokaeas2 and Menelaos Karanikolas3 Address Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of Patras School of Medicine. Patras Greece - Department of Urology University of Patras School of Medicine Patras Greece and 3Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine University of Patras School of Medicine. Patras Greece Email Efstratios E Apostolakis - stratisapostolakis@ Nikolaos G Baikoussis - ngbaik@ Dimitrios Tselikos - dtselikos2003@ Ioanna Koniari - iokoniari@ Christos Prokakis - xristosprokakis@ Eleftherios Fokaeas - baikoussisn@ Menelaos Karanikolas - kmenelaos@ Corresponding author Published 13 November 2009 Received 31 August 2009 Accepted 13 November 2009 Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009 4 65 doi l749-8090-4-65 This article is available from http content 4 1 65 2009 Apostolakis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Retroperitoneal fibrosis is best described as a chronic inflammatory process which may be idiopathic but can rarely be brought about by medications such as pergolide used for treating Parkinson s disease. Pergolide can produce a fibrotic process in heart valves resulting in valve insufficiency in up to 25 of cases. Herein we describe the case of a 68-year-old man who received .