Primary Purulent Meningococcal Pericarditis with Tamponade
- 12 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Medica Scandinavica
- Vol. 201 (1-6) , 587-588
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1977.tb15753.x
Abstract
A case of primary purulent meningococcal pericarditis, presenting with hemodynamic derangement due to tamponade, is reported. Treatment was successfully fulfilled with antibiotics and surgical drainage, using continuous percutaneous subxiphoidal catheter drainage with the Seldinger technique. Less than 10 cases of this potentially lethal entity have been reported in the literature.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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