Amebic Pericarditis

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AMEBIC pericarditis is a rare complication of infection with Endamoeba histolytica. A review of the literature from 1885 to the present revealed 44 proved cases of suppurative amebic pericarditis. Pericarditis was reported to have developed in 14 additional patients with known amebiasis. In these, however, the diagnosis was established either by the finding of serous fluid in the pericardial sac at post-mortem examination or by the appearance, during life, of a pericardial friction rub that disappeared after treatment with emetine hydrochloride. In all cases the pericardial involvement was secondary to an amebic abscess adjacent to the pericardial sac in either . . .

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