Cardiac tamponade and constrictive pericarditis due to Actinomyces meyeri bacterial pericarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Purulent bacterial pericarditis (PBP) is a highly lethal infection of the pericardial space that arises as a complication of infective illnesses. Purulent bacterial pericarditis remains a diagnostic challenge given its non-specific clinical and investigative features and carries exceedingly high mortality rates due to fulminant sepsis and morbidity including constrictive pericarditis in survivors. We present our management of cardiac tamponade and subsequent constrictive pericarditis due to Actinomyces meyeri PBP.

Case summary

A 53-year-old Caucasian male presented with acute New York Heart Association Class IV dyspnoea and chest discomfort, in the context of multiple hospital presentations over the preceding 8 weeks due to presumed recurrent viral pericard

SUBMITTER: Eng-Frost J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9272429 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature