To the Editor: There are many reports describing the development of myocarditis and cardiomyopathy following treatment with clozapine. Fewer reports exist about the development of pericarditis, and reports of successful rechallenges with clozapine following the development of pericarditis are particularly rare. We report the case of a patient successfully resumed on clozapine treatment followin...

The complications of staphylococcal septicaemia are many and varied, according to the age group affected. In the adult, acute bacterial endocarditis, pneumonia (which may be further complicated by acute pyogenic pericarditis), osteomyelitis and focal abscess formation in the liver, spleen, kidney and brain may all occur. In childhood, staphylococcal pneumonia with its attendant danger of pyopne...

Cases of melioidosis (N = 2) and tuberculous pericarditis (N = 33) during 1996-2006 were reviewed. Clinical presentations were similar, but pericardial pathological findings were not. Nine of 12 patients with melioidosis required pericardectomy. In areas where these diseases are endemic, pericardial fluid culture and pericardial biopsy can differentiate between melioidosis and tuberculosis.

The authors present two cases of purulent pericarditis secondary to pneumococcus pneumonia, a rare entity in the antibiotic era, one of them in an apparently healthy person. A systematized diagnostic approach to moderate pericardial effusion is presented, together with a review of purulent pericarditis. The presence of pericardial effusion with persistent fever with or without known etiology, p...

There is a paucity of scientific literature regarding the utility of computed tomography in the diagnosis of acute pericarditis. This report may be the first in the English language literature to document a diagnosis of clinically unsuspected acute pericarditis made using computed tomography. Spiral computed tomography has the capacity to diagnose acute pericarditis, since lymphadenopathy and h...

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...

Neoplastic pericarditis represents approximately 5%-7% of the cases with acute pericarditis and is rarely the initial manifestation of malignancy. The most common cause is lung cancer, followed by breast cancer, lymphomas, leukemia, and esophageal cancer. Neoplastic pericardial disease is extremely rare in thyroid cancer, especially as the first manifestation. Here, we present a papillary thyro...

Pericarditis and myocarditis are diseases of a similar etiology clinical image, they often overlap. Depending on the manifestation, there is pericarditis with simultaneous involvement heart muscle (myopericarditis), or pericardial (perimyocarditis). The paper presents case young patient myopericarditis, attention to electrocardiographic image parameters myocardial damage.

INTRODUCTION Constrictive pericarditis is a heterogeneous disease with many causes. Traumatic hemopericardium is an uncommon initiating cause. We report the case of a man developing constrictive pericarditis after blunt chest trauma, in order to highlight an approach to diagnosing the condition and to raise awareness of the possibility of this condition developing after blunt trauma. CASE PRE...

1459 daily during at least 6 months in cases of recurrent pericarditis and during 3 months in cases of first episodes of pericarditis. Our results were recently reported,4 and they confirm the findings of Guindo et all and Rodriguez de la Serna et al.2 Eleven patients with recurrent pericarditis were included in the study. Previous treatments (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in 10 patients...