Four faces of acute myopericarditis.

Four faces of acute myopericarditis.

Acute Myopericarditis caused by Human Metapneumovirus.

Human metapneumovirus is known to be similar to respiratory syncytial virus. Because of an incomplete protective immune response to new genotypes, re-infection occurs frequently, especially in the elderly. However, the clinical manifestations of human metapneumovirus need to be further characterized in adults. A 73-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with acute dyspnea, chest discomf...

Dengue Myopericarditis Mimicking Acute Myocardial Infarction.

A 33-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with giddiness. She had a history of fever and vomiting 4 days before, which had completely resolved. Her medical history was otherwise unremarkable. She was leuko-penic (leukocyte count 4.6×10 9 /L), lymphopenic (0.47×10 9 /L), and thrombocytopenic (89×10 9 /L), and she remained hypoten-sive (mean arterial pressure, 45 mm Hg) despite 3 ...

Tickborne Lymphadenopathy Complicated by Acute Myopericarditis, Spain

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Four Faces of Moral Realism

This article explains for a general philosophical audience the central issues and strategies in the contemporary moral realism debate. It critically surveys the contribution of some recent scholarship, representing expressivist and pragmatist nondescriptivism (Mark Timmons, Hilary Putnam), subjectivist and nonsubjectivist naturalism (Michael Smith, Paul Bloomfield, Philippa Foot), nonnaturalism...