title: Pericardial effusion in children: experience from tertiary care center in northern India.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe profile and outcome in children with significant pericardial effusion.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospital records of 25 children admitted with significant pericardial effusion during January 2010 to March 2013 were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirteen (52%) children had tubercular, 6 (24%) had bacterial, 3 viral, 2 recurrent idiopathic and one had malignant pericardial effusion. Only 3 children in our series required surgical drainage.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Echocardiography guided percutaneous pericardiocentesis and pigtail catheter placement was found to be safe and effective.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, and *Department of CTVS, PGIMER and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to: Dr Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER and Dr. RML Hospital, N. Delhi 110 001, India. dineshkumar169@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Narendra Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Bagri
authors.forename: Dinesh Kumar
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.forename: Sheetal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Tenukala
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aier
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020519:Pericardiocentesis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers