Abstract:The unusual course of illness involving an 8-week old infant is described, which, after a staphylococcic sepsis with subsequent purulent pericarditis, developed the typical clinical symptoms of a constrictive pericarditis within a 12-day-period. There is only one similar case reported on in medical literature, involving an 8-month old infant.--Despite an immediate operation (anterior pericardectomy) the infant died 3 days later.
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