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  • Title: Viral pericarditis in patients receiving hemodialysis.
    Author: Osanloo E, Shalhoub RJ, Cioffi RF, Parker RH.
    Journal: Arch Intern Med; 1979 Mar; 139(3):301-3. PubMed ID: 218513.
    Abstract:
    Four patients with end-stage renal disease in whom pericarditis developed while they received intermittent hemodialysis therapy were evaluated for viral infection. We found high or rising serum antibody titers to influenza virus A (three patients) and coxsackievirus B (one patient). Cardiac tamponade occurred in three patients, requiring pericardiectomy in two; each patient eventually recovered. Viral pericarditis may be an important cause of "uremic" pericarditis in chronically dialyzed patients.
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