[Constrictive pericarditis in early infancy (author's transl)].
The unusual course of illness involving an 8-week old infant is described, which, after a staphylococcic sepsis with subsequent purulent pericarditis, developed the typical clinical symptoms of a constrictive pericarditis within a 12-day-period. There is only one similar case reported on in medical literature, involving an 8-month old infant.--Despite an immediate operation (anterior pericardectomy) the infant died 3 days later.
D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications
Konstriktive Perikarditis im frühen Säuglingsalter.