Salmonella enteritidis can cause aggressive subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis requiring emergency pericardectomy, a previously unreported presentation.
Alerts clinicians to Salmonella in atypical subacute pericarditis; hypothesis-generating for this unreported effusive-constrictive form.
A 36 year old woman had emergency pericardectomy because of subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis. The pericardial fluid and tissue culture showed that this was caused by infection with Salmonella enteritidis. Cardiac involvement with salmonella does not usually present in such an aggressive manner and it has not previously been reported to cause this rare type of cardiac constriction.
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