Berti Anna, Rino Bregani Enrico, Valcarenghi Caterina
Doctors with Africa - CUAMM, Wolisso, South-West Shewa, Ethiopia.
Infez Med. 2013 Jun;21(2):139-41.
We report a case of cardiac tamponade in a child with meningococcal disease. Although purulent meningococcal pericarditis is more frequent in children, we found a reactive pericardial effusion responsive to steroids and consistent with a rare immune-complex associated pericardial involvement.
我们报告了一例患脑膜炎球菌病的儿童发生心脏压塞的病例。尽管化脓性脑膜炎球菌性心包炎在儿童中更为常见,但我们发现了一种对类固醇有反应的反应性心包积液,符合罕见的免疫复合物相关的心包受累情况。