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A man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: Pericardial tuberculosis

We herein described a case of pericardial tuberculosis presenting as a cardiac tamponade in a HIV-negative man with restrictive pericarditis initially, but during treatment with antituberculous drugs and without the addition of corticosteroids, he developed constrictive pericarditis that required su...

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Autores principales: Uribe Pulido, Natalí, Osorio Sandoval, Germán, Hidrón Botero, Alicia, Ribero Vargas, Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34458096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01248
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author Uribe Pulido, Natalí
Osorio Sandoval, Germán
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Ribero Vargas, Marcel
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description We herein described a case of pericardial tuberculosis presenting as a cardiac tamponade in a HIV-negative man with restrictive pericarditis initially, but during treatment with antituberculous drugs and without the addition of corticosteroids, he developed constrictive pericarditis that required surgery. We raise the discussion of the indication of corticosteroids in these cases.
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spelling pubmed-83794312021-08-26 A man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: Pericardial tuberculosis Uribe Pulido, Natalí Osorio Sandoval, Germán Hidrón Botero, Alicia Ribero Vargas, Marcel IDCases Article We herein described a case of pericardial tuberculosis presenting as a cardiac tamponade in a HIV-negative man with restrictive pericarditis initially, but during treatment with antituberculous drugs and without the addition of corticosteroids, he developed constrictive pericarditis that required surgery. We raise the discussion of the indication of corticosteroids in these cases. Elsevier 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8379431/ /pubmed/34458096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01248 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full A man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: Pericardial tuberculosis
title_fullStr A man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: Pericardial tuberculosis
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title_sort man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: pericardial tuberculosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34458096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01248
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