Cardiac diseases in AIDS surgery
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2]
Surgery
Recurrent pericardial effusions are treated by subxiphoid pericardiotomy with placement of a pericardial window [1]. Alternatively, a balloon pericardiotomy can be performed to rupture the pericardium into pleural cavity.