Assertion: tuberculous pericarditis | /r/HasProperty | based and/or appropriate response
Facets:
value: on the proof of tuberculosis
type: OTHER
value: to a trial of antituberculosis chemotherapy
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A “definite” diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis is based on the demonstration of tubercle bacilli in pericardial fluid or on a histological section of the pericardium; “probable” tuberculous pericarditis is based on the proof of tuberculosis elsewhere in a patient with otherwise unexplained pericarditis, a lymphocytic pericardial exudate with elevated adenosine deaminase levels, and/or appropriate response to a trial of antituberculosis chemotherapy.