Pericarditis in Children : Symposium III Pericarditis
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Infective pericarditis in Nigerian children.
53 children with infective pericarditis were seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, between 1967 and 1976. Their ages ranged from 10 days to 15 years but 53% of them were aged 5 years and below. Cough, fever, and breathlessness were the most common symptoms; cardiac decompensation was evident in over 30% of them, 23% had muffled heart sounds, but a pericardial friction rub was audible...
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Infective endocarditis is a common serious infectious pathology in children. The most commonly identified organisms are of the streptococcus and staphylococcus species. Patients always have a fever. Other signs of infective endocarditis include Roth spots, splinter hemorrhages and Osler nodes. Blood cultures and echocardiography are very important in the establishment of the diagnosis. The diag...
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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...
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Infective endocarditis is a common serious infectious pathology in children. The most commonly identified organisms are of the streptococcus and staphylococcus species. Patients always have a fever. Other signs of infective endocarditis include Roth spots, splinter hemorrhages and Osler nodes. Blood cultures and echocardiography are very important in the establishment of the diagnosis. The diag...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Circulation Journal
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0047-1828,1347-4839
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.42.175