Impact of pericardiectomy on exercise capacity and sleep of patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis

• Dirceu Thiago Pessoa de Melo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dirceu Thiago Pessoa de Melo, Fábio Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dirceumelo@yahoo.com.br

  Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Clinical Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3059-4327

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• Flavia Baggio Nerbass,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Sleep Laboratory, Pulmonary Divison, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Ana Luiza Carrari Sayegh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Unit of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Francis Ribeiro de Souza,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Unit of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Viviane Tiemi Hotta,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Clinical Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Vera Maria Curi Salemi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Heart Failure Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Félix José Alvarez Ramires,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Clinical Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Ricardo Ribeiro Dias,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sleep Laboratory, Pulmonary Divison, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Charles Mady,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Clinical Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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• Fábio Fernandes

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dirceu Thiago Pessoa de Melo, Fábio Fernandes

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Clinical Unit, Cardiology Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

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