Clinically Manifest Tuberculous Pericarditis

Abstract

Tuberculosis of the pericardium is not an unusual observation at necropsy,1 particularly in cases of advanced disseminated tuberculosis ; but the presence of clinically manifest, or clinically primary, tuberculous pericarditis is unusual in adults and rare in children.2 Recognition of this lesion during life has led to a small number of observations on the effects of increased intrapericardial pressure on various circulatory phenomena ;3 that these phenomena are sometimes peculiar and not altogether in accord with those produced by experimental cardiac tamponade 4 is understandable when one keeps in mind that the patho-