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MAURICE L. BLATT, M.D.; JOSEPH GREENGARD, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1928;35(4):631-636.

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Pericarditis as the first clinical manifestation of active tuberculosis in childhood is rare. A careful review of the literature failed to reveal the report of such a case diagnosed during life.

Waller¹ reported a case in which postmortem examination showed that the pericarditis was tuberculous; tuberculous pericarditis as a postmortem observation is not a great rarity.² Many cases of chronic phthisis reveal an adhesive pericarditis at autopsy, and in generalized miliary tuberculosis the pericardium is not infrequently involved along with other serous membranes. Norris³ collected data on 1,780 cases of tuberculosis from various hospitals; eighty-two cases of tuberculous pericarditis were found, thirty-two in which there were actual tubercles, and forty-nine in which tubercles or any other demonstrable etiology was not found. Machlachlan⁴ reviewed 975 autopsies in which 100 cases of pericardial involvement of one type or another were included; ten per cent of these were on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois; Chief, Department Diseases of Children, Cook County Hospital; Associate, Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois; Attending Staff, Municipal Contagious Disease Hospital CHICAGO

Footnotes
Received for publication, Nov. 21, 1927.

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