title: Pericarditis complicating a case of meningococcal meningitis.
abstract: The case is described of an 18-year-old schoolboy who developed pericarditis during the course of meningococcal meningitis; he had evidence of a preceding chronic meningococcaemia. Good recovery followed on systemic antibiotics only. The pericarditis was probably a direct septic complication of meningococcal meningitis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000150:complications*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis