Bacterial Pericarditis due to Providencia stuartii An Atypical Case of Relapsing Pericarditis
| Autor: | Silvia Flaminia Curri, Sergio Pericotti, Fredy Suter, Patrizia Pedrotti, Paolo Ferrazzi, Maria Dieli, Michele Senni, Caterina Simon, Antonio Brucato, Paolo Brambilla |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Simon, C, Dieli, M, Brucato, A, Pedrotti, P, Brambilla, P, Curri, S, Senni, M, Pericotti, S, Suter, F, Ferrazzi, P |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pleural effusion Pleuropericarditis Providencia Chest pain Tazobactam Bacterial Infection Pericarditis Physiology (medical) medicine Pericarditi Abscess Amikacin Past medical history business.industry Middle Aged medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Surgery Treatment Outcome Echocardiography medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Tomography X-Ray Computed Bacterial Pericarditis medicine.drug Human |
| Popis: | A 58-year-old man was admitted for relapsing pericarditis. His past medical history included a transient ischemic attack when he was 47 years old, radical right nephrectomy for neoplasia 8 years earlier, and hypertension. One year earlier, a diagnosis of pleuropericarditis was made in another hospital. The patient was febrile and complained of chest pain; an echocardiogram showed thickening of parietal pericardium, hyperechoic matter on visceral pericardium, and the presence of pericardial and pleural effusion, without hemodynamic impairment. Concomitantly, the patient had a dental abscess; cultures from this abscess were negative during antibiotic therapy. He was treated empirically with piperacillin/tazobactam for 15 days and then with amoxicillin/clavulanate for ≈1 month and … |
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