Bacterial pericarditis: Diagnosis and management

American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-112

  Pankuweit, Sabine ^a   Ristić, Arsen D ^a,b   Seferović, Petar M ^b   Maisch, Bernhard ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZTREONAM; CAFFEINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOKINASE; STREPTOMYCIN; THEOPHYLLINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UROKINASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INJURY; META ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 14944374705     PISSN: 11753277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00129784-200505020-00004     Document Type: Article

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