title: Amebic pericarditis.
abstract: Amebic pericarditis in a 40-year-old man who presented with insidious onset of symptoms is reported. Pericarditis is an infrequent complication of liver abscess and accounts for 4 percent of all extraintestinal amebiasis. Communication between the left lobe of liver and pericardium has been demonstrated in this patient.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000562:Amebiasis / Q000209:etiology*; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*