A successfully treated case of primary purulent pericarditis complicated by cardiac tamponade and pneumopericardium
Autor: | Beom, Jong Wook, Ko, Yeekyoung, Boo, Ki Yung, Lee, Jae-Geun, Choi, Joon Hyouk, Joo, Seung-Jae, Moon, Ji Hwan, Kim, Su Wan, Kim, Song-Yi |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Cardiology lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid Pericardial fluid Case Report Pneumopericardium lcsh:RC86-88.9 Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Critical Care Nursing medicine.disease Pericardial effusion pericarditis Surgery Catheter Pericarditis Acute pericarditis Streptococcus anginosus Pericardiocentesis Cardiac tamponade pericardiocentesis cardiac tamponade Medicine business |
Zdroj: | Acute and Critical Care, Vol 36, Iss 1, Pp 70-74 (2021) Acute and Critical Care |
ISSN: | 2586-6060 2586-6052 |
Popis: | Acute pericarditis is caused by various factors, but purulent pericarditis is rare. Primary purulent pericarditis in immunocompetent hosts is very rare in the modern antibiotics era. We report a successfully treated case of primary purulent pericarditis complicated with cardiac tamponade and pneumopericardium in an immunocompetent host. A 69-year-old female was referred from another hospital because of pleuritic chest pain with a large amount of pericardial effusion. She was diagnosed with acute pericarditis accompanied by cardiac tamponade. We performed emergency pericardiocentesis, with drainage of 360 ml of bloody pericardial fluid. The culture grew Streptococcus anginosus, confirming the diagnosis of acute purulent pericarditis. We performed pericardiostomy because cardiomegaly and pneumopericardium were aggravated after removal of the pericardial drainage catheter. The patient received antibiotics for a total of 23 days intravenously and was discharged with oral antibiotic therapy. Purulent pericarditis is one of the rare forms of pericarditis and is life-threatening. A multimodality approach is required for proper diagnosis and treatment of this disease. |
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