Spontaneous bacterial pericarditis with tamponade due to Ureaplasma spp.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1965-1968

  Tarrant, William P ^a   Gonzalez Berjon, Jose M ^a   Cernoch, Patricia L ^a   Olsen, Randall J ^a   Musser, James M ^a,b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; DOXYCYCLINE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MALAISE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NEUTROPHILIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VITAL SIGN;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UREAPLASMA;

EID: 66749124142     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00352-09     Document Type: Article

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