piperacillin--tazobactam-drug-combination and Pericardial-Effusion

Pericardial effusion can develop during any stage of pericarditis, and small effusions that appear rapidly can cause cardiac tamponade. Pyopericardium is a rare aetiology for tamponade. This is a case of an elderly diabetic lady, on steroid therapy for immune thrombocytopenia, who presented with fever and acute dyspnoea. She developed cardiac tamponade due to pyopericardium with

Topics: Acute Disease; Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cardiac Tamponade; Disease Progression; Drainage; Female; Humans; Penicillanic Acid; Pericardial Effusion; Pericarditis, Constrictive; Piperacillin; Piperacillin, Tazobactam Drug Combination; Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic; Staphylococcal Infections; Staphylococcus aureus; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Vancomycin