title: Clinical observation on pericardiocentesis and glucocorticoid in the treatment of tuberculous pericarditis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate peri-cardiocentesis and glucocorticoids in the treat-ment of the clinical curative effect of tubercu-lous pericarditis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Choose 128 cases of our hospital diagnosed as tuberculous peri-carditis patients as the research object, accord-ing to the treatment, were divided into group A (pericardium puncture + anti-tuberculosis (an-ti-TB) treatment of 26 cases) and group B (peri-cardium puncture +anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) + glucocorticoid treatment of 30 cases), group C (anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) + glucocorticoid therapy of 24 cases, and group D anti-tuberculo-sis (anti-TB) treatment of 48 cases, in the treat-ment of 8 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 18 months by B ultrasonic and CT ex-amination to observe the efficacy of treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At 8 weeks after treatment in group A, group B and group C and group D efficient were 61.54%, 93.33%, 54.17%, and 68.75%, respective-ly, group B, respectively, compared with group A, group C, and group D, had obvious statistical sig-nificance difference (p < 0.05); Groups of early and late treatment comparison difference have no sta-tistical significance (p > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tuberculous pericarditis in anti-TB treatment on the basis of using pericar-diocentesis and sugar cortical hormone treat-ment, can achieve an ideal effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascularology, Xiangyang Hospital Affiliated to Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, Hubei, China. 3404617lihui@163.com.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: F-Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: X-L
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020519:Pericardiocentesis / Q000379:methods*; D010495:Pericarditis, Tuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D005938:Glucocorticoids