RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Decortication of the heart for staphylococcal pericarditis
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 133
OP 136
DO 10.1136/thx.26.1.133
VO 26
IS 1
A1 N. V. Perera
YR 1971
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/26/1/133.abstract
AB A case of acute staphylococcal pericarditis with constriction of the heart is reported. The response to antibiotics and simple pericardial drainage was poor. Pericardiectomy and decortication of the heart was performed on a moribund patient. Marked improvement followed surgery combined with intensive antibiotic therapy. At follow-up eight months later, the patient was a normal active 6-year-old boy.