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Quadruple anti-tuberculosis therapy and pericardiocentesis successfully relieved dyspnea and markedly regressed effusion in a 46-year-old woman with tuberculosis pericarditis.
Case Report (n=1)
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Tuberculous pericarditis can present with massive effusion and dense fibrinous material without tamponade, and echocardiography is valuable for visualizing these characteristic fibrinous structures.
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May guide select TB pericarditis cases; leaves open need for prospective trials before practice change.
Tuberculosis-associated pericardial disorders are an excessively rare manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The patients may present with constrictive pericarditis or pericardial fluid accumulation leading to cardiac tamponade. This paper reports a case of tuberculosis-associated pericardial effusion with dense fibrinous material not causing tamponade in a foreigner presenting with nonspecific symptoms. It also provides a discussion about the diagnostic and therapeutic methods as well as interesting echocardiographic images of the patient.
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Arslan et al. (2018) conducted a case report in Tuberculosis pericarditis (n=1). Quadruple anti-tuberculosis therapy and pericardiocentesis was evaluated. Quadruple anti-tuberculosis therapy and pericardiocentesis successfully relieved dyspnea and markedly regressed effusion in a 46-year-old woman with tuberculosis pericarditis.
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