Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
Pericarditis
PATHOGENS
- Pericarditis causes: include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
- Infectious pathogens: a partial listing
- Viruses:
- Enteroviruses (Coxsackie, Echovirus)
- HIV (AIDS-associated pericarditis)
- Influenza
- Mumps
- Varicella zoster virus
- Epstein Barr virus
- Cytomegalovirus
- HHV-6
- Adenovirus
- Bacteria: in the antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/ anaerobes)
- Staphylococcus aureus (most common single organism cause)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Salmonella spp
- Leptospira spp.
- Providencia stuartii
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Anaerobes
- Peptostreptococcus
- Cutibacterium acnes
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Most frequent worldwide, especially in low-resource, endemic countries.
- Frequently associated with HIV infection.
- Coxiella burnetti
- Borrelia burgdorferi (infrequent cause of pericardial effusions)
- Fungal:
- Coccidioides immitis
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Blastomyces spp.
- Candida spp. (immunocompromised pts)
- Aspergillus spp. (immunocompromised pts)
- Cryptococcus neoformans (immunocompromised pts)
- Parasitic:
- Viruses:
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Last updated: February 9, 2023
Citation
Auwaerter, Paul. "Pericarditis." Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, The Johns Hopkins University, 2023. Pediatrics Central, peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540428/all/Pericarditis.
Auwaerter P. Pericarditis. Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2023. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540428/all/Pericarditis. Accessed December 24, 2024.
Auwaerter, P. (2023). Pericarditis. In Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540428/all/Pericarditis
Auwaerter P. Pericarditis [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2023. [cited 2024 December 24]. Available from: https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540428/all/Pericarditis.
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