PMID: 6107851Sep 1, 1980Paper

Cardiac tamponade and chambered pericardial effusion complicating hemophilus influenzae pericarditis (author's transl)

Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde : Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde
G RupprathD Kececioglu

Abstract

An unusual case of a 9 year old girl with primary pericarditis and cardiac tamponade due to Hemophilus influenzae is reported. Meningitis or manifestations in other organs could be excluded. Despite pericardial drainage for three weeks beginning at the 11th day of illness, a chambered pericardial effusion developed, which could be localized more exactly by cross-sectional echocardiography than by axial computerized tomography.

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