RT Journal
A1 Osanloo E, Shalhoub RJ, Cioffi RF, Parker RH
T1 VIral pericarditis in patients receiving hemodialysis
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1979
FD March 1
VO 139
IS 3
SP 301
OP 303
DO 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630400027014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1979.03630400027014
AB Four patients with end-stage renal disease in whom pericarditis developed while they received intermittent hemodialysis therapy were evaluated for viral infection. We found high or rising serum antibody titers to influenza virus A (three patients) and coxsackievirus B (one patient). Cardiac tamponade occurred in three patients, requiring pericardiectomy in two; each patient eventually recovered. Viral pericarditis may be an important cause of "uremic" pericarditis in chronically dialyzed patients.(Arch Intern Med 139:301-303, 1979)