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Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2020 Jul 25;4(4):1-5. doi: 10.1093/ehjcr/ytaa173. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Acute myopericarditis caused by .

European heart journal. Case reports

Omar Chehab, Emma McGuire, Robert L Serafino Wani, Roshan Weerackody

Affiliations

  1. St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, W Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE, UK.

PMID: 32974469 PMCID: PMC7501925 DOI: 10.1093/ehjcr/ytaa173

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Acute myopericarditis can be caused by a myriad of infectious and non-infectious aetiologies, however, it is often considered to be due to self-limiting viral infection.

CASE SUMMARY: A 44-year-old man presented with fever, dyspnoea, and chest pain. He was found to have a large pericardial effusion with clinical signs of tamponade and sepsis. Therapeutic pericardiocentesis was performed and ceftriaxone and levofloxacin were administered. Fully sensitive

DISCUSSION: We report a rare case of

© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.

Keywords: Case report; Myocarditis; Pericardial effusion; Pericarditis; Salmonella

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