The New England journal of medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Prednisolone and Mycobacterium indicus pranii in tuberculous pericarditis.
Tuberculous pericarditis is associated with high morbidity and mortality even if antituberculosis therapy is administered. We evaluated the effects of adjunctive glucocorticoid therapy and Mycobacterium indicus pranii immunotherapy in patients with tuberculous pericarditis. ⋯ In patients with tuberculous pericarditis, neither prednisolone nor M. indicus pranii had a significant effect on the composite of death, cardiac tamponade requiring pericardiocentesis, or constrictive pericarditis. (Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and others; IMPI ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00810849.).
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Letter Case Reports
Resistance to therapy in acute promyelocytic leukemia.