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All that Glitters is not Cholecystitis. A Rare Presentation of Acute Pericarditis Mimicking Cholecystitis and Review of the Literature

Acta Medica Lituanica, 2022
Acute pericarditis is the most common inflammatory disorder of the pericardium, responsible for approximately 5% of visits to the emergency departments, concerning chest pain without myocardial infarction.
Anna Garmpi, Christos Damaskos, Nikolaos Garmpis, Vasiliki Epameinondas Georgakopoulou, Vaios Vasileios Kaminiotis, Evangelos Diamantis, Alexandros Patsouras, Athanasios Syllaios, Dimitrios Dimitroulis   +8 more
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Case Report: ST-Segment Elevation in a Man With Acute Pericarditis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020
Background: Acute pericarditis is a rapid inflammatory condition of the pericardium with both infectious and non-infectious etiology. Most acute pericarditis is self-limited, with a small portion evolving rapidly.
Yi-Ming Li, Yu-Heng Jia, Jiay-Yu Tsauo, Si Wang, Yong Peng   +4 more
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Pericardial effusion caused by viral pericarditis in a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis

Renal Replacement Therapy, 2022
Background Acute pericarditis causes acute inflammation of the pericardium. Although most cases of pericarditis are idiopathic with no identifiable cause, its etiology can be infectious, such as viral, bacterial, mycotic, and tuberculous infections, or ...
Masahiro Egawa, Shungo Fujii, Kentaro Takase, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Asuka Yamauchi, Kaori Yoshikane, Kazuaki Tanabe, Hiroaki Shiina, Takafumi Ito   +8 more
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Acute Pericarditis: Electrocardiogram

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2016
HPI: A 22 year-old male presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of retrosternal chest pain that started yesterday. He described the pain as a constant, sharp and pleuritic.
Jason Mefford, Shannon Toohey
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Novel Pathophysiological, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Concepts in Acute and Recurrent Pericarditis

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Acute pericarditis is the most frequent pericardial disease characterized by inflammation of the pericardial layers resulting in pain, dyspnea and fatigue.
Aldo Bonaventura, Georgia K Thomas, Michele Golino, Adolfo Gabriele Mauro, Alessandra Vecchié, Marco Giuseppe Del Buono, Stefano Toldo, Nicola Potere, Antonio Abbate   +8 more
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Iatrogenic Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade Following Distal Wire Perforation: A Serial Case Report

Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology, 2022
Distal wire perforation is an infrequent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) complication, which may progress to one of the fearful conditions, cardiac tamponade, and rarely to iatrogenic pericarditis.
Achmad Fauzi Yahya, Minsy Titi Sari, Aninka Saboe   +2 more
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Primary purulent bacterial pericarditis due to Streptococcus intermedius in an immunocompetent adult: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Acute purulent bacterial pericarditis is of rare occurrence in this modern antibiotic era. Primary involvement of the pericardium without evidence of underlying infection elsewhere is even rarer. It is a rapidly progressive infection with high
Mohammad Saud Khan, Zubair Khan, Bhavana Siddegowda Banglore, Ghattas Alkhoury, Laura Murphy, Claudiu Georgescu   +5 more
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Colchicine in Treatment of Intractable Postpericardiotomy Syndrome in an Elderly Patient

International Journal of Gerontology, 2011
Postpericardiotomy syndrome is a specific type of acute pericarditis because of a delayed pericardial and/or pleural reaction after thoracic surgery. Relapse after aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and/or steroid treatment or intractable to ...
Lin-Shong Li, Chun-Fu Chen, Der-Yan Tai
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Acute pericarditis complicated with pericardial effusion as first presentation of COVID‐19 in an adult sudanese patient: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2022
Acute pericarditis is an uncommon presentation of COVID‐19. Here, we described a case of a 50‐year‐old male patient who presented with chest pain without fever or cough and diagnosed with acute pericarditis complicated by pericardial effusion due to ...
Waddah Aljaely Mohamed Osman, Abdelmuniem Siddig Mohamed Ahmed, Moh. Mah. Fadelallah Eljack, Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed, Mazin S. Haroun, Yassin Abdelrahim Abdalla   +5 more
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Acute and recurrent pericarditis [PDF]

Vnitřní lékařství, 2019
Pericardial diseases have been until recently relatively neglected entity; however, there has been a markedly increased interest in these disorders in the last decade due to new diagnostic as well as therapeutic options. Various clinical manifestations of pericardial diseases may be generally grouped into pericardial syndromes including pericarditis ...
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