Purulent pericarditis: A complication of endoscopic oesophageal variceal sclerotherapy

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 688-

  Gupta, San ^a,b   Thompson, K ^a   Grellier, L ^a  

^a WORTHING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTERIAL GAS; BACTEROIDES; CASE REPORT; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEART SOUND; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; NOTE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURULENT PERICARDITIS; RETROSTERNAL PAIN; SEPTICEMIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THORACOTOMY; VEIN LIGATION;

BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OLEIC ACIDS; PERICARDITIS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 23044525141     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861428     Document Type: Note

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