[Juvenile polyarthritis complicated by recurring tamponade: treatment using pericardotomy and high dosages of corticoids].
Pericarditis is common in juvenile polyarthritis, but tamponade is a very rare complication and usually needs pericardiocentesis, pericardiotomy or pericardiectomy. We report an exceptionally rare recurrent tamponade after an 8 years interval in a patient with juvenile polyarthritis: the first tamponade was treated by pericardiotomy; the second episode of adiastole regressed after high dose steroid therapy.
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000008:administration & dosage; D000328:Adult; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000150:complications*; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery*; D012008:Recurrence; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000601:surgery*
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Polyarthrite juvénile compliquée de tamponade récidivante: traitement par péricardotomie et corticoïdes à forte dose.