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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]

## Overview

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Unless the patient has advanced immunosuppression or is at high risk for mortality from HIV related complications, cardiaovascular surgical procedures like valve replacement and coronary artery bypass can be performed safely.

## Surgery

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* Recurrent pericardial effusions are treated by subxiphoid pericardiotomy with placement of a pericardial window [1][2]. Alternatively, a balloon pericardiotomy can be performed to drain the pericardial fluid into pleural cavity [3].
* Surgical resection of primary cardiac lymphoma is attempted when the intracardiac masses cause significant obstruction to blood flow across the valves.
* Valve replacement surgery for treating valve incompetency.
* Coronary artery bypass surgery for treating coronary heart disease.

## References

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1. ↑ Flum DR, McGinn JT, Tyras DH (1995). "The role of the 'pericardial window' in AIDS". Chest. 107 (6): 1522–5. PMID 7781340. Unknown parameter `|month=` ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Gouny P, Lancelin C, Girard PM, Hocquet-Cheynel C, Rozenbaum W, Nussaume O (1998). "Pericardial effusion and AIDS: benefits of surgical drainage". European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery : Official Journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 13 (2): 165–9. PMID 9583822. Unknown parameter `|month=` ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
3. ↑ Ziskind AA, Pearce AC, Lemmon CC; et al. (1993). "Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy for the treatment of cardiac tamponade and large pericardial effusions: description of technique and report of the first 50 cases". Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 21 (1): 1–5. PMID 8417048. Unknown parameter `|month=` ignored (help)CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)

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