Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children.

نویسندگان

  • S K Sanyal
  • I Kaur
  • V Hooja
  • M K Thapar
  • S Vaishnava
چکیده

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, distended and pulsatile neck veins, hepatomegaly, puffy face and pulsus paradoxus should suggest the diagnosis of pericarditis with acute cardiac tamponade. Prompt drainage by pericardiocentesis or pericardiostomy is essential.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of disease in childhood

دوره 45 240  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1970