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Purulent pericarditis secondary to influenza and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus co-infection

Part of: Infectious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2018

Kavita Morparia Open the ORCID record for Kavita Morparia [Opens in a new window] ,
Courtney Peshkovsky  and
Meena Kalyanaraman
Kavita Morparia*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA
Courtney Peshkovsky
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA
Meena Kalyanaraman
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA
*
Author for correspondence: K. Morparia, Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, C-5, 201 Lyons Ave, Newark, NJ 07112, USA. Tel: 973-926-8081; E-mail: Kavita.morparia@rwjbh.org
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Abstract

Purulent pericarditis occurs rarely in the current antibiotic era. We describe clinical and echocardiographic features of purulent pericarditis in a previously healthy child with influenza and community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus co-infection. The child was already on appropriate antibiotics and had a very subtle clinical presentation, with prominent abdominal symptoms. Timely surgical drainage led to complete recovery.

Keywords

Pericardial effusionpericarditispericardial tamponadeinfluenzaintensive care
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 12 , December 2018 , pp. 1481 - 1483
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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