TY  - JOUR
T1  - TReatment of uremic pericarditis
AU  - Minuth AN
Y1  - 1979/04/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1979.03290400021006
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1461
EP  - 1461
VL  - 241
IS  - 14
N2  - To the Editor.— 
    The use of polyethylene catheter in pericardial drainage1 also found application in the treatment of uremic pericarditis in the early part of this decade,2-4 when it was also used to inject steroids and was left in place up to 26 days. Buselmeier et al5 have published numerous articles from 1973 through the present (240:1358, 1978) reporting their experience with this technique. Although the incidence of pericarditis occurring in the well-dialyzed patient during three months seems to be on the decline, this technique seems to have helped reduce, if not make unnecessary, subjecting these patients to pericardiectomies. Two items regarding the report of Buselmeier et al require comment.None of our patients required pericardiectomies, whether or not indomethacin6 was used. During the past four years, only one patient in my care required a pericardiocentesis, which yielded about 800 mL of serosanguineous fluid. The occurrence
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1979.03290400021006
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03290400021006
ER  -