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

1 Tuberculous (TB) pericarditis is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, where tuberculosis is the most common opportunistic infection complicating HIV infection, and is seen occasionally in developed ...

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 ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Tuberculous pericarditis continues to have a high incidence in developing countries. Despite ...

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 ...

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1 Over a century later Kussmaul described pulsus paradoxus (the inspiratory absence of the radial pulse) in patients with tuberculous pericarditis.2 Cardiopulmonary interactions are present in health, ...

The condition must be distinguished from tuberculous pericarditis. Important factors in the differential diagnosis are the presence of tricuspid incompetence with systolic expansion of the neck veins, ...

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 ...

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.

Tamponade is a frequent presentation in tuberculous pericarditis, happening in almost 90% of cases. Besides positive cultures, other important features for positive diagnosis are fever and night ...

Differential diagnosis included constrictive pericarditis (secondary to tuberculosis), serositis caused by collagen disease and malignancy. Detailed investigations led to the diagnosis of PCIS, which ...