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Acute Primary Pneumococcal Purulent Pericarditis With Cardiac Tamponade: A Case Report and Literature Review.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- A case report of fulminant primary purulent pericarditis due toEuropean heart journal. Case reports · 2026Article
- Purulent Pericardial Effusion: An Elusive Diagnosis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Pyogenic Pericarditis Leading to Cardiac Arrest: a Case Report Highlighting POCUS-Guided Pericardiocentesis.POCUS journal · 2026Article
- Emergence of multidrug-resistant ST876 serotype 14Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Purulent Pericarditis: Treating a Medically-Complex Patient With Intrapericardial Antibiotics.JACC. Case reports · 2025Article
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- From the Gut to the Heart: A Rare Case of Salmonella dublin Pericarditis.The American journal of case reports · 2023Article
- Beyond Pneumonia: A Rare Case of Pericardial Empyema Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.Cureus · 2023Article
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- Acute myocardial infarction complicated by purulent pericarditis: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
- Pyopericardium and extensive mediastinal abscess following EBUS-TBNA for mediastinal staging of NSCLC: a case report.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2023Article
- Pneumococcal pericarditis in a patient with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2022Article
- A case report of fulminant primary streptococcal pericarditis.European heart journal. Case reports · 2021Article
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- Purulent bacterial pericarditis fromClinical case reports · 2019Article
- [Austrian syndrome: A rare manifestation of invasive pneumococcal disease. A case report and bibliographic review].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2019Review
- Two cases of acute pneumococcal purulent arthritis.IDCases · 2018Article
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Abstract
Bacterial pericarditis is a rapidly progressive and highly fatal infection, and is often diagnosed postmortem in half of the cases. Even with drainage and antibiotics, the mortality rate is high. Gram-positive cocci, specifically Streptococcus penumoniae, have been the most common cause of bacterial pericarditis with a preceding primary site of infection. Following the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s and more recently the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, the incidence has drastically decreased.We describe an extremely rare case of primary streptococcus pneumoniae purulent pericarditis that presented with cardiac tamponade. The patient was successfully treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and urgent pericardiocentesis.Due to the high mortality rate with purulent pericarditis, a high index of suspicion is needed when acute pericarditis is suspected for early diagnosis to instate appropriate therapy with antibiotics and drainage.
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