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Recent advances in multimodality imaging‐guided therapy in pericarditis
European Journal of Clinical Investigation, EarlyView.Multiple imaging targets have been identified as essential biomarkers to confirm pericardial thickening, edema, neovascularization, inflammation, fibrosis/calcification, cardiac tamponade physiology, and constriction. This novel approach is called imaging‐guided therapy, which guides anti‐inflammatory therapy, assesses treatment response, assists in ...
Joseph El Roumi +4 more
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Tuberculous pericarditis: Challenges and controversies in the modern era [PDF]
, 2016 Tuberculous pericarditis (TBP) continues to wreak havoc across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite more than 5 decades of treatment and research into TBP, we are not much closer to alleviating the suffering and mortality associated with this extrapulmonary
Kyriakakis, Charles G.
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Opportunistic infections are frequent in people living with the human immunodeficiency virus who either do not have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) or use it irregularly. Tuberculosis is the most frequent infectious disease in PLHIV and
Gleiciere Maia Silva +5 more
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Clinical Cardiology and Cardiovascular InterventionsIntroduction: The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of tuberculous pericarditis and to describe its diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic aspects.
A. Ngaide
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Tuberculosis: An Update for the Clinician
Respirology, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 196-205, March 2025.ABSTRACT Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health threat with high mortality and efforts to meet WHO End TB Strategy milestones are off‐track. It has become clear that TB is not a dichotomous infection with latent and active forms but presents along a disease spectrum.
Saskia Janssen +4 more
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Pericarditis caused by Mycobacterium africanum: case report
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022 Background Mycobacterium africanum is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and is endemic in West Africa, where it causes up to half of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Paula Mascarell +8 more
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Tuberculous pericarditis in Birmingham. [PDF]
Thorax, 1978 Forty-one patients with acute tuberculous pericarditis were studied retrospectively. Anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy alone was effective in thirty. Five patients died, two from unrelated causes, two due to delayed diagnosis, and one after pericardiectomy.
J M Smith, H C Gooi
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Brief images : massive pericardial effusion [PDF]
, 2014 Significant pericardial effusions are an uncommon but very important disorder in childhood. Referring to one of the patients, cross-sectional imaging demonstrated a massive pericardial effusion. The underlying etiology here was connective tissue disease
Chang, Simone, Maharaj, Satish
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Melioidosis Pericarditis Mimicking Tuberculous Pericarditis [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2010 Cases of melioidosis (N = 2) and tuberculous pericarditis (N = 33) during 1996-2006 were reviewed. Clinical presentations were similar, but pericardial pathological findings were not. Nine of 12 patients with melioidosis required pericardectomy.
Siriluck Anunnatsiri +3 more
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Cystic Tuberculous Pericarditis A Rare Form
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2005 Tuberculous pericariditis is the most common cause of chronic pericarditis, especially in developing countries. Cystic tuberculous pericarditis is an exceedingly rare type of tuberculosis. Authors discuss clinical manifestations and radiological findings
B Sharifi-Mood, R Alavi Naini, M Eazadi
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