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Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report
Q fever can present in acute or chronic form with a wide range of clinical symptoms and presentations. Here we report severe pericarditis with cardiac tamponade due to a chronic Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) infection. Our report emphasizes and justifies the importance of serological testing for c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938255 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34980 |
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author | Pikoulas, Antonios Arapi, Sofia Kosta, Georgia Lampropoulos, Christos Papaioannou, Ioanna |
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description | Q fever can present in acute or chronic form with a wide range of clinical symptoms and presentations. Here we report severe pericarditis with cardiac tamponade due to a chronic Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) infection. Our report emphasizes and justifies the importance of serological testing for chronic Q fever in patients with unexplained pericarditis, particularly in areas where C. burnetii is endemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-100197862023-03-17 Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report Pikoulas, Antonios Arapi, Sofia Kosta, Georgia Lampropoulos, Christos Papaioannou, Ioanna Cureus Cardiology Q fever can present in acute or chronic form with a wide range of clinical symptoms and presentations. Here we report severe pericarditis with cardiac tamponade due to a chronic Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) infection. Our report emphasizes and justifies the importance of serological testing for chronic Q fever in patients with unexplained pericarditis, particularly in areas where C. burnetii is endemic. Cureus 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10019786/ /pubmed/36938255 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34980 Text en Copyright © 2023, Pikoulas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Pikoulas, Antonios Arapi, Sofia Kosta, Georgia Lampropoulos, Christos Papaioannou, Ioanna Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title | Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title_full | Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title_short | Q Fever Severe Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report |
title_sort | q fever severe pericarditis with cardiac tamponade: a case report |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938255 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34980 |
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