[Pericardial tuberculosis in Madagascar. 23 cases].

A 56 months retrospective study, from October 1990 to May 1995, at the Centre Hospitalier de Soavinandriana in Antananarivo pointed out 29 tuberculous pericarditis among the 97 pericardial effusions discovered by the echocardiography of 5600 patients. The sex-ratio was 0,81 and the mean age 38,6 years old (+/- 14,3). Hospitalization was justified by dyspnea (18 cases), thoracic pain (18 cases), lower limbs edema (6 cases) and ascitis (3 cases).