[Juvenile polyarthritis complicated by recurring tamponade: treatment using pericardotomy and high dosages of...

Pericarditis is common in juvenile polyarthritis, but tamponade is a very rare complication and usually needs pericardiocentesis, pericardiotomy or pericardiectomy. We report an exceptionally rare recurrent tamponade after an 8 years interval in a patient with juvenile polyarthritis: the first tamponade was treated by pericardiotomy; the second episode of adiastole regressed after high dose steroid therapy.