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Division of Cardiology, General Hospital Murska Sobota, Ulica dr. Vrbnjaka 6, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia.
Background: Polymicrobial pericarditis is an extremely rare and lethal form of pericarditis. Prompt initiation of appropriate antimicrobial treatment and pericardial drainage are crucial.
Case Summary: A 57-year-old immunocompromised male patient presented to the emergency department due to dyspnoea, chest pain, and fever lasting for 7 days.
Retrospective analysis of the use of tranexamic acid in critically ill dogs and cats (2018-2019): 266 dogs and 28 cats.
J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio)
November 2022
Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Angell Animal Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Objective: To describe the signalment, dosing, adverse events, and patient diagnosis for dogs and cats admitted to the critical care unit (CCU) receiving tranexamic acid (TXA).
Design: Case series from 2018 to 2019.
Setting: Private referral and primary care veterinary hospital.
Large Pericardial Effusion-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options, with a Special Attention to the Role of Prolonged Pericardial Fluid Drainage.
Diagnostics (Basel)
June 2022
I Department of Lung Diseases, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, 01-138 Warsaw, Poland.
Background: Large pericardial effusion (LPE) is associated with high mortality. In patients with cardiac tamponade or with suspected bacterial etiology of pericardial effusion, urgent pericardial decompression is necessary.
Aim: The aim of the present retrospective study was to assess the short-term results of pericardial decompression combined with prolonged drainage in LPE.
Acute purulent pericarditis treated conservatively with intrapericardial fibrinolysis and intrapericardial and systemic antibiotics.
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
March 2021
Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Purulent pericarditis is rare, and the mortality rate is very high. Conservative management consists of pericardial drainage and antibiotic therapy. We report a case of purulent pericarditis on top of chest infection in a man presenting with dyspnea, productive cough, fever, and hypotension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntrapericardial recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in purulent pericarditis- case series.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord
August 2020
I Department of Lung Diseases, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, ul Plocka 26, 01-138, Warsaw, Poland.
Background: Pericardial constriction is one of the complications of purulent pericarditis (PP). Most difficult to treat, which may develop both in early and in the late period of the disease, resulting in a very poor prognosis.
Case Presentation: We present case series of 4 patients with purulent pericarditis, in whom direct intrapericardial administration of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (r-tPA) was used.
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