Literature DB >> 3408623

A progressive pericardial effusion caused by psittacosis.

S R Page1, J T Stewart, J J Bernstein.   

Abstract

A patient developed signs of a progressive pericardial effusion over a period of eight days. Diagnostic and therapeutic pericardiocentesis was performed. Viral titres to psittacosis rose from less than 1:8 to greater than 1:256 indicating recent infection.

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Year:  1988        PMID: 3408623      PMCID: PMC1216522          DOI: 10.1136/hrt.60.1.87

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Br Heart J        ISSN: 0007-0769


  8 in total

1.  Cardiac involvement in psittacosis.

Authors:  R Coll; I Horner
Journal:  Br Med J       Date:  1967-10-07

2.  Infective endocarditis as part of psittacosis.

Authors:  D A Levison; W Guthrie; C Ward; D M Green; P G Robertson
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1971-10-16       Impact factor: 79.321

3.  Ornithosis in Somerset. Experience in the South Somerset clinical area 1964-71.

Authors:  J P Anderson
Journal:  Postgrad Med J       Date:  1973-08       Impact factor: 2.401

4.  Unusual cause of atrial fibrillation.

Authors:  J M Reid; J F Kennedy; J McArthur
Journal:  Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)       Date:  1982-01-23

5.  "Rheumatic" heart disease, psittacosis and the importance of epidemiology.

Authors:  C Ward
Journal:  Am Heart J       Date:  1978-02       Impact factor: 4.749

6.  Infective endocarditis complicating psittacosis: response to rifampicin.

Authors:  A G Jariwalla; B H Davies; J White
Journal:  Br Med J       Date:  1980-01-19

7.  Pericardial and myocardial disease associated with serological evidence of infection by agents of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma venereum group (Chamydiaceae).

Authors:  G C Sutton; R A Morrissey; J R Tobin; T O Anderson
Journal:  Circulation       Date:  1967-12       Impact factor: 29.690

8.  Pericardial effusion complicating psittacosis infection.

Authors:  C R Kundu; M E Scott
Journal:  Br Heart J       Date:  1979-11
  8 in total
  2 in total

1.  A problematic case of chlamydia pericarditis and sicca syndrome.

Authors:  N Giordano; E Battisti; M Senesi; C Gennari
Journal:  Clin Rheumatol       Date:  1996-01       Impact factor: 2.980

Review 2.  Chlamydial infections of the heart.

Authors:  M Odeh; A Oliven
Journal:  Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis       Date:  1992-10       Impact factor: 3.267

  2 in total

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