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Case Reports
. 2020 May 1;40(Supl. 1):23-25.
doi: 10.7705/biomedica.4911.

Tuberculous pericarditis

[Article in English, Spanish]
Leonardo F Jurado  1 , Bibiana Pinzón  2 , Zandra R De La Rosa  3 , Marcela Mejía  4 , Diana M Palacios  5
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Tuberculous pericarditis

[Article in English, Spanish]
Leonardo F Jurado et al. Biomedica. .
No abstract available

Keywords: tuberculosis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Chest X-ray. PA projection. Global cardiomegaly with rounded cardiac shape. No opacities were observed.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Contrasted chest computed tomography, mediastinal window. There is a 3-millimeter thickening and abnormal pericardial enhancement, pericardial effusion, which does not produce compression of the right ventricle, and pre-aortic adenopathy with heterogeneous enhancement (white arrow).
Figure 3
Figure 3. A and B. Pericardium compromised by chronic granulomatous inflammation with central necrosis and multinucleated giant cells. Hematoxylin-eosin. 40X. C. Zielh-Neelsen stain showing acid-fast bacilli (black arrow), 100X
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