Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a common cause of pericarditis in the developing countries and constrictive pericarditis is a serious sequel. There are only three cases of constrictive pericarditis in kidney transplant recipients previously reported in literature. Here, we report a case of constrictive pericarditis...

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Autores principales: Sreejith, P., Kuthe, S., Jha, V., Kohli, H. S., Rathi, M., Gupta, K. L., Sakhuja, V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21072157
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.70849
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author Sreejith, P.
Kuthe, S.
Jha, V.
Kohli, H. S.
Rathi, M.
Gupta, K. L.
Sakhuja, V.
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description Tuberculosis is a common cause of pericarditis in the developing countries and constrictive pericarditis is a serious sequel. There are only three cases of constrictive pericarditis in kidney transplant recipients previously reported in literature. Here, we report a case of constrictive pericarditis developing in a renal transplant recipient while on antituberculous therapy for tuberculous pleural effusion.
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spelling pubmed-29669832010-11-10 Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis Sreejith, P. Kuthe, S. Jha, V. Kohli, H. S. Rathi, M. Gupta, K. L. Sakhuja, V. Indian J Nephrol Case Report Tuberculosis is a common cause of pericarditis in the developing countries and constrictive pericarditis is a serious sequel. There are only three cases of constrictive pericarditis in kidney transplant recipients previously reported in literature. Here, we report a case of constrictive pericarditis developing in a renal transplant recipient while on antituberculous therapy for tuberculous pleural effusion. Medknow Publications 2010-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2966983/ /pubmed/21072157 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.70849 Text en © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Sakhuja, V.
Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title_full Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title_fullStr Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title_short Constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
title_sort constrictive pericarditis in a renal transplant recipient with tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966983/
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