Purulent pericarditis report of 2 cases and review of the literature

Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-65

  Parikh, Shailja V ^a   Memon, Nada ^a   Echols, Melvin ^a   Shah, Jessica ^a   McGuire, Darren K ^a   Keeley, Ellen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURULENT PERICARDITIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; ANEURYSM; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HEART TAMPONADE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOTOMY; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUPPURATION; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SUPPURATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 64949202487     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318194432b     Document Type: Review

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