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Purulent pericarditis and a mediastinal abscess presented in a previously healthy 3-month-old infant with fever, tachycardia, and poor feeding without an obvious initial source of infection.
Describes a case of purulent pericarditis and mediastinal abscess in a young infant.
May prompt BCG scar inspection in febrile infants with suspected infection; leaves open prospective validation of atypical Kawasaki disease features.
A thriving, previously healthy 3-month-old girl presented with a 4-day history of fever, irritability and poor feeding. On admission, she was tachycardic, had cool peripheries with normal central perfusion, pulse volume and blood pressure. There was no obvious source of infection from clinical
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Ng et al. (2020) studied this question. Purulent pericarditis and a mediastinal abscess presented in a previously healthy 3-month-old infant with fever, tachycardia, and poor feeding without an obvious initial source of infection.
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