[Home respiratory care].

In 1980, 11,000 French patients were given home respiratory care (HRC); today there are ten times more cases, i.e. about 120,000.

Primary pneumococcal pericarditis complicated by acute constriction.

We report a case of a 31-year-old male with primary pneumococcal pericarditis. Severe acute constrictive pericarditis developed within a month of the onset of the illness in spite of adequate antibiotic therapy and pericardial drainage.