Regional Pericarditis or an Alternate Diagnosis?
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Regional Pericarditis or an Alternate Diagnosis?
We read the paper by Alhammouri and Omar published in a recent issue of the Case Reports in Medicine [1]. The authors have described a case of what appeared to be a case of localized pericarditis; however, we wonder if alternate diagnosis was considered in the differential diagnosis. The initial ECG illustration shows ST-elevation localized to the inferior leads with reciprocal ST-depressions i...
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Kevin P Masek, MD, is an Emergency Medicine Resident in the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program in CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Joel T Levis, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Medical Center, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine (Surgery) at Stanford University. He is the Medical Director for the Foothill Co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2014/313607