• Pericardectomy, secondary to a heart base tumour, left side thoracotomy

At West Midlands Referrals, we removed the sac from around the heart so that the heart was no longer being squeezed.

Panda did very well after surgery with us at her owners chose to remove her from our premises on the evening of surgery just after a chest drain had been removed. Unfortunately, they refused to ever bring her back for a check up, but we understand that she did very well post-op.

As is often the case, this condition had arisen from a tumour within in the pericardial sac, so the long-term future is only cautiously optimistic.

9th October 2018

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