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Case Reports
. 1979 Aug;38(4):387-9.
doi: 10.1136/ard.38.4.387.

Constrictive pericarditis, pyopericardium, and tamponade with rheumatoid arthritis

A J Marshall, W C Brownlee, G Keen
Case Reports

Constrictive pericarditis, pyopericardium, and tamponade with rheumatoid arthritis

A J Marshall et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 1979 Aug.

Abstract

Constrictive pericarditis and pyopericardium with tamponade in a patient and rheumatoid arthritis is described. No fever was recorded despite a litre of pus in the pericardial sac, perhaps because of previous treatment with hydrocortisone. Echocardiography is a diagnostic advance.

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