During the past four years 13 patients with acute pericarditis have been studied at this hospital. Case reports concerning 7 of these patients illustrating the main features of this disorder were ...

Acute inflammatory myopericardial syndromes span a range from pure pericarditis to pure myocarditis, with the terms myopericarditis and perimyocarditis used to reflect the dominant component of ...

Laboratory signs of inflammation are common in patients with myopericarditis and include elevations in white blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum C-reactive protein concentration ...

Case 1. One of us (M.J.G.) had the opportunity, in 1937, of observing a 15-year-old boy in whom serum sickness followed the administration of tetanus antitoxin. This was manifested by fever, ...

A 44-year-old otherwise healthy man presents to an emergency department in Baltimore, noting that for the past 24 hours he has had a sharp pain in his chest that worsens when he breathes deeply. He ...

A 35-year-old man presents with sudden onset sharp chest pain following a flu-like illness. The pain does not radiate and is not associated with breathlessness. It is relieved slightly by sitting up ...

A 28-year-old man who is new to your list, and whose records have not yet arrived, presents in your emergency surgery with a two-day history of substernal chest pain. He describes this as sharp and ...