Cardiac tamponade following inadvertent thrombolysis in acute pericarditis

Cardiac tamponade and acute renal failure following Salmonella agona pericarditis.

A 19-year-old female presented with cardiac tamponade complicated by acute renal failure. Salmonella agona was cultured from pericardial aspirate after repeated pericardiocentesis in several sites. Treatment with ampicillin and intermittent haemodialysis led to complete recovery.

Cardiac tamponade in constrictive pericarditis following cardiac catheterization.

Case Report A 62-year-old woman showed the signs of constrictive pericarditis. Increasing size of the abdomen for the past two or three years requiring paracentesis was her main complaint. She was in sinus rhythm, blood pressure 150/80 mm. Hg, and the electrocardiogram (Fig. 1A) showed normal P waves and flat or slightly upright T waves. On the radiograph the tranverse diameter of the heart was...

Hemorrhagic Pericarditis Leading to Cardiac Tamponade Following Abciximab Therapy.

Acute Primary Pneumococcal Purulent Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade

Bacterial pericarditis is a rapidly progressive and highly fatal infection, and is often diagnosed postmortem in half of the cases. Even with drainage and antibiotics, the mortality rate is high. Gram-positive cocci, specifically Streptococcus penumoniae, have been the most common cause of bacterial pericarditis with a preceding primary site of infection. Following the introduction of antibioti...

Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children.

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...