Children presenting with acute pericarditis to the emergency department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 581-585

  Ratnapalan, Savithiri ^a   Brown, Kristen ^a   Benson, Lee ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

idiopathic pericarditis; outcome; pericarditis presentations; recurrent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHEST PAIN; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960697387     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31822251ba     Document Type: Article

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