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Untreated pneumococcal pneumonia complicated by purulent pericarditis can present as an out-of-hospital asystolic cardiopulmonary arrest.
Highlights a rare presentation of purulent pericarditis complicating untreated pneumococcal pneumonia as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
May prompt consideration of purulent pericarditis in unexplained arrests with pneumonia; hypothesis-generating case leaves broader incidence and management open.
Serious complications of pneumococcal pneumonia have become uncommon with effective antibiotic treatment. Purulent pericarditis is a rare though well described complication of untreated pneumococcal sepsis. A case of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia complicated by purulent pericarditis is described. This presented as an out of hospital asystolic cardiopulmonary arrest.
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Wass et al. (1997) studied this question. Untreated pneumococcal pneumonia complicated by purulent pericarditis can present as an out-of-hospital asystolic cardiopulmonary arrest.
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