Open AccessBacterial pericarditis presenting as hemorrhagic pericardial effusion in a 6-year-old girl
Author(s) -
Anitá Saxena,
Navneet Singh,
S Ramakrishnan,
Kothari Ss
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2069.41062
Subject(s) - medicine , pericardial effusion , cardiac tamponade , pericarditis , tamponade , girl , malignancy , tuberculous pericarditis , effusion , pericardial fluid , surgery , psychology , developmental psychology
Hemorrhagic pericardial effusion is known to occur due to tuberculosis, malignancy, uremia or trauma. We present a rare case of a 6 year old girl with bacterial pericarditis who had hemorrhagic pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade.