Abstract
The drainage and instillation of poorly absorbable corticosteroids has recently been suggested as an laternative to the present modes of therapy for uremic pericarditis. One patient who underwent such a therapeutic approach subsequently had a left internal mammary artery to right internal mammary vein arteriovenous fistula develop. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the development of arteriovenous fistula after either pericardiocentesis or intrapericardial instillation of steroids.
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