Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae purulent pericarditis in a child with cystic fibrosis
Kevin J Downes1, Kamal Abulebda2, Christopher Siracusa3
1Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Abstract:
Early airway colonization and infection with Haemophilus influenzae in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) is common. Although the pathogenicity of non-typeable H. influenzae (NTHi) in patients with CF is controversial, this organism can cause both upper and lower respiratory tract infections. Extra-pulmonary disease, however, is rare. Purulent pericarditis is a suppurative complication of bacterial infection of the pericardial space that can arise as a result of direct extension from an adjacent infection. We describe a case of purulent pericarditis due to NTHi in a young child with CF that developed as a complication of inadequately treated bronchopneumonia.
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