title: Pericardiectomy for pleuropericardial effusion complicating bacterial pneumonia.
abstract: Severe pericardial effusion is a rare complication of bacterial pneumonia and it usually disappears under medical treatment. Herein we report a case of a girl with a congenital immunodeficient syndrome and bacterial pneumonia, who developed recurrent and life-threatening pericardial effusion refractory to medical treatment. She was finally treated with pericardiectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Congenital and Paediatric Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti, 60128 Ancona, Italy.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quarti
authors.forename: Fernando Maria
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: de Benedictis
authors.forename: Elli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Soura
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pozzi