Treatment of tuberculous pericarditis requires the cooperation of a multidisciplinary team (cardiologists and infectious diseases specialists, occasionally a pneumologist and internal medicine ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis was then able to detect M. tuberculosis complex DNA without rifampicin resistance. Upon notifying the department of health, it came to light that the ...

Major specific etiologies to be ruled out in clinical practice are tuberculous pericarditis, neoplastic pericarditis and pericarditis associated with a systemic disease (generally a connective ...

Tuberculosis, which is the most common cause ... when high doses were given for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Constrictive pericarditis can present decades later. Trauma. Post-cardiac surgery.

A pericardial effusion from tuberculosis can occur in isolation without any pulmonary manifestations. Viral pericarditis or myocarditis are associated with a pericardial effusion, most commonly ...