Complication of etanercept treatment for rheumatoid arthritis - Purulent pericarditis caused by a commensal organism

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Taylor, Gemma K ^a   Elliott, Louise ^a   Sosin, Michael D ^a   Soo, Shiu Shing ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETANERCEPT; MEROPENEM; METHOTREXATE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOOT EDEMA; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PARVIMONAS MICRA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA GENE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 84863741502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.01.2012.5644     Document Type: Article

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