The Annals of thoracic surgery
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Constrictive pericarditis causes hepatic congestion, which results in congestive hepatopathy and finally leads to cardiac cirrhosis. However, in previous studies, risk stratification from the viewpoint of liver dysfunction was not performed in patients who underwent pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis. ⋯ It is meaningful to apply the Child-Pugh scoring system for the prediction of mortality after radical pericardiectomy in patients with constrictive pericarditis.