High-dose cytarabine therapy may induce pericarditis with tamponade as a direct complication.
Raises awareness of possible cytarabine-related tamponade; hypothesis-generating case report requiring confirmation before practice implications.
• Pericarditis with tamponade developed in a patient treated with high-dose cytarabine for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Evidence suggests that this was a direct complication of his treatment. (Arch Intern Med1984;144:1868-1869)
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