TY - JOUR T1 - Purulent pericarditis: A rare diagnosis JO - Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English edition) T2 - AU - Ferreira dos Santos,Luís AU - Moreira,Davide AU - Ribeiro,Pedro AU - Rodrigues,Bruno AU - Correia,Emanuel AU - Nunes,Luís AU - Sequeira,Miguel AU - Albuquerque,Ana AU - Barros,Inês AU - Saraiva,José Pedro AU - Santos,Oliveira SN - 21742049 M3 - 10.1016/j.repce.2013.10.010 DO - 10.1016/j.repce.2013.10.010 UR - https://www.revportcardiol.org/en-purulent-pericarditis-a-rare-diagnosis-articulo-S2174204913001748 AB - The authors present two cases of purulent pericarditis secondary to pneumococcus pneumonia, a rare entity in the antibiotic era, one of them in an apparently healthy person. A systematized diagnostic approach to moderate pericardial effusion is presented, together with a review of purulent pericarditis. The presence of pericardial effusion with persistent fever with or without known etiology, particularly in the immunocompromised but also in the apparently healthy patient, should always raise the possibility of purulent pericarditis. ER -