Key result
Varicella infection triggers rare isolated staphylococcal pericarditis and cardiac tamponade in an adolescent.
Why the study?
Cardiac complications of varicella infections are rare and typically involve viral myocardial involvement with reactive pericardial effusions, with isolated bacterial pericarditis not previously reported in adolescents.
Case Report (n=1)
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May warrant consideration of staphylococcal pericarditis in varicella with tamponade; extends known complications but leaves open incidence and management.
Varicella infections commonly follow a self-limited course with minimal sequelae in the nonimmunocompromised host. Superinfections with bacterial organisms usually are found only in early childhood.1 Cardiac complications are rare and usually reflective of viral myocardial involvement, with any associated pericardial effusions ascribed to a reactive serositis.2,3 We present a case of isolated staphylococcal pericarditis and symptomatic cardiac tamponade as an unusual complication of a varicella infection not previously associated with adolescent patients.
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Kopec et al. (1990) conducted a case report in Isolated staphylococcal pericarditis and symptomatic cardiac tamponade following varicella (n=1). Varicella infection was evaluated on Isolated staphylococcal pericarditis and symptomatic cardiac tamponade. A varicella infection in an adolescent was complicated by isolated staphylococcal pericarditis and symptomatic cardiac tamponade, an unusual presentation not previously associated with this age group.
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