A man with weight loss and cardiac tamponade: Pericardial tuberculosis
Natalí Uribe Pulido,
Germán Osorio Sandoval,
Alicia Hidrón Botero,
Marcel Ribero Vargas
Affiliations
Natalí Uribe Pulido
1st-year infectious diseases fellow, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Calle 78 B # 72 A 159. Medellín, Colombia.; Corresponding author.
Germán Osorio Sandoval
Pathology professor, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 64 # 51D - 154. Medellín, Colombia
Alicia Hidrón Botero
Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe, Infectious diseases chief's department, School of medicine. Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Calle 78 B # 72 A 159. Medellín, Colombia
Marcel Ribero Vargas
3rd-year internal medicine resident. Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 64 # 51D - 154. Medellín, Colombia
We herein described a case of pericardial tuberculosis presenting as a cardiac tamponade in a HIV-negative man with restrictive pericarditis initially, but during treatment with antituberculous drugs and without the addition of corticosteroids, he developed constrictive pericarditis that required surgery. We raise the discussion of the indication of corticosteroids in these cases.
