INTRODUCTION The long-term outcome of acute pericarditis with high cardiac troponin-T (cTnT) is unknown. Our purpose was to investigate the prognostic and clinical value of cTnT in myopericardial inflammatory syndromes. METHODS Between January 2001 and September 2011, 107 patients hospitalized for acute pericarditis or myopericarditis were enrolled. Postinfarction pericarditis and neoplastic ...

Common variable immune deficiency (CVID) is known as the most prevalent symptomatic inborn error of immunity associated with autoimmune and inflammatory complications in addition to recurrent infections. In this study, we investigated prevalence acute pericarditis a complication past medical history 337 CVID patients. We found five patients (1.5%) that had experienced pericarditis, described th...

mulibrey nanism is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome caused by a mutation in the trim37 gene with severe growth retardation and multiple organ involvement. early diagnosis is important because 50% of the patients develop congestive heart failure owing to constrictive pericarditis, and this condition plays a critical role in the final prognosis. a 37-year-old female patient presented with symp...

The authors describe a clinical case in which they found the unusual combination of acute hepatitis caused by HCV and pericarditis in a young person, resulting in complete recovery from the pericarditis but in a deterioration of the chronic HCV. A close examination of the literature on this subject revealed that, although no similar case was recorded, an aetiological relationship between the he...

To the Editor: There are many reports describing the development of myocarditis and cardiomyopathy following treatment with clozapine. Fewer reports exist about the development of pericarditis, and reports of successful rechallenges with clozapine following the development of pericarditis are particularly rare. We report the case of a patient successfully resumed on clozapine treatment followin...

The complications of staphylococcal septicaemia are many and varied, according to the age group affected. In the adult, acute bacterial endocarditis, pneumonia (which may be further complicated by acute pyogenic pericarditis), osteomyelitis and focal abscess formation in the liver, spleen, kidney and brain may all occur. In childhood, staphylococcal pneumonia with its attendant danger of pyopne...

Cases of melioidosis (N = 2) and tuberculous pericarditis (N = 33) during 1996-2006 were reviewed. Clinical presentations were similar, but pericardial pathological findings were not. Nine of 12 patients with melioidosis required pericardectomy. In areas where these diseases are endemic, pericardial fluid culture and pericardial biopsy can differentiate between melioidosis and tuberculosis.

The authors present two cases of purulent pericarditis secondary to pneumococcus pneumonia, a rare entity in the antibiotic era, one of them in an apparently healthy person. A systematized diagnostic approach to moderate pericardial effusion is presented, together with a review of purulent pericarditis. The presence of pericardial effusion with persistent fever with or without known etiology, p...

There is a paucity of scientific literature regarding the utility of computed tomography in the diagnosis of acute pericarditis. This report may be the first in the English language literature to document a diagnosis of clinically unsuspected acute pericarditis made using computed tomography. Spiral computed tomography has the capacity to diagnose acute pericarditis, since lymphadenopathy and h...

Sanyal, Shyamal K., Kaur, Inder, Hooja, Vijaya, Thapar, Mohinder, K., and Vaishnava, Sarla (1970). Archives ofDisease in Childhood, 45, 198. Staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade in children. Six children with acute staphylococcal pericarditis with cardiac tamponade are presented. In any patient with staphylococcal infection, the sudden onset of dyspnoea, tachycardia, tachypnoea, d...