Treatment of Purulent Pericarditis With Intrapericardial Alteplase

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Sep;16(9):e015412. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.015412. Epub 2023 Jul 21.

Authors

Robert S Zhang¹, Arushi Singh¹, Usman Alam², Kelsey Grossman¹, Norma Keller¹, Carlos L Alviar¹, Sripal Bangalore¹

Affiliations

¹ Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY (R.S.Z., A.S., K.G., N.K., C.L.A., S.B.).
² Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY (U.A.).

PMID: 37477022
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.123.015412

No abstract available

Keywords: echocardiogram; fibrosis; pericardial effusion; pericarditis; pericardium.

MeSH terms

Humans
Pericarditis* / diagnostic imaging
Pericarditis* / drug therapy
Pericardium / diagnostic imaging
Tissue Plasminogen Activator* / therapeutic use

Substances

Tissue Plasminogen Activator