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Infez Med
; 21(2): 139-41, 2013 Jun.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23774979
RESUMEN
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.