Pericardial tuberculosis: What Patients Should Know
By Dr. Rosa Abbott, MD · · Infectious Disease
This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Infectious Disease service line explains pericardial tuberculosis in plain language.
About this topic
Topic: pericardial tuberculosis. An extrapulmonary tuberculosis that is located_in pericardium resulting in acute pericarditis, chronic pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade or pericardial constriction.
Related care
- orchiopexy
- ablation therapy
- magnesium supplementation
- adrenergic uptake inhibitor agent therapy
- positron emission tomography procedure
- radiograph imaging with contrast dye
- syphilis screening
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