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Tuberculous pericarditis in an HIV-infected patient
1Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2605, USA.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Persons co-infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and HIV are at increased risk for developing active tuberculosis. While extrapulmonary tuberculosis is particularly common in patients with AIDS, tuberculous pericarditis is a very uncommon complication of AIDS in the United States. We present a case of tuberculosis involving the pericardium and review the current literature on this topic.