Two cases of purulent staphylococcal pericarditis successfully treated in the course of chronic haemodialysis (HD) are reported. Pericardiac fenestration was carried out in both. In the second case the first pericardiac fenestration had yielded a sterile fluid and bacterial pericarditis developed only later. The significance of local therapy, side by side with surgery and chemotherapy, is stressed.
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Objective: Preclinical research suggests that the combined use of radiofrequency ablation and balloon dilation (CURB) could create stable interatrial communications without device implantation. This study examined the first in-human use of CURB for modified atrial septostomy in patients with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
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Two cases of purulent staphylococcal pericarditis successfully treated in the course of chronic haemodialysis (HD) are reported. Pericardiac fenestration was carried out in both. In the second case the first pericardiac fenestration had yielded a sterile fluid and bacterial pericarditis developed only later.
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