Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia

Severe pericardial effusion is a rare complication of bacterial pneumonia and it usually disappears under medical treatment. Herein we report a case of a girl with a congenital immunodeficient syndrome and bacterial pneumonia, who developed recurrent and life-threatening pericardial effusion refract...

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Autores principales: Quarti, Andrea, de Benedictis, Fernando Maria, Soura, Elli, Pozzi, Marco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/715953
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author Quarti, Andrea
de Benedictis, Fernando Maria
Soura, Elli
Pozzi, Marco
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Pozzi, Marco
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description Severe pericardial effusion is a rare complication of bacterial pneumonia and it usually disappears under medical treatment. Herein we report a case of a girl with a congenital immunodeficient syndrome and bacterial pneumonia, who developed recurrent and life-threatening pericardial effusion refractory to medical treatment. She was finally treated with pericardiectomy.
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spelling pubmed-28786872010-06-28 Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia Quarti, Andrea de Benedictis, Fernando Maria Soura, Elli Pozzi, Marco Case Rep Med Case Report Severe pericardial effusion is a rare complication of bacterial pneumonia and it usually disappears under medical treatment. Herein we report a case of a girl with a congenital immunodeficient syndrome and bacterial pneumonia, who developed recurrent and life-threatening pericardial effusion refractory to medical treatment. She was finally treated with pericardiectomy. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2878687/ /pubmed/20585369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/715953 Text en Copyright © 2010 Andrea Quarti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Quarti, Andrea
de Benedictis, Fernando Maria
Soura, Elli
Pozzi, Marco
Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title_full Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title_fullStr Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title_short Pericardiectomy for Pleuropericardial Effusion Complicating Bacterial Pneumonia
title_sort pericardiectomy for pleuropericardial effusion complicating bacterial pneumonia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/715953
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