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Tuberculous pericarditis leading to cardiac tamponade: importance of screening prior to immunosuppression

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) presenting with pericardial disease complicated by cardiac tamponade is rare in the developed world, although it occurs more frequently in the context of immunosuppression. In this report, a 74‐year‐old man on methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis presented with fever...

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Autores principales: Wee, Edmund, Denton, Eve, Daffy, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4694605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740879
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.126