Tuberculous Pericardial Effusion After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1519-1521

  Tuladhar, Sampurna M ^a   Noursadeghi, Mahdad ^a,b   Boyle, Joseph J ^a   Friedland, Jon S ^a   Hornick, Philip ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; RIFATER; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DYSPNEA; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DRAINAGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; PERICARDIUM; RECURRENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 33748740747     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.02.059     Document Type: Article

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