Acute pericarditis: a report of eight cases in which the etiology was "non-specific" or "cryptic".

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Article1 May 1950ACUTE PERICARDITIS: A REPORT OF EIGHT CASES IN WHICH THE ETIOLOGY WAS "NON-SPECIFIC" OR "CRYPTIC"ARNOLD W. POHL, M.D., F.A.C.P.ARNOLD W. POHL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-32-5-935 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAcute pericarditis usually occurs in the presence of more or less easily recognized infections elsewhere in the body, as with rheumatic fever, pneumococcic pneumonia, septicemia or tuberculosis, to mention the more common examples. That it may occur spontaneously and without the demonstration of any known infectious agent is not well known. Such cases have been called acute, non-specific pericarditis. The sudden onset and the severity of the chest pain may be such as to lead to the erroneous diagnosis of coronary thrombosis,1, 2, 3 or to pulmonary infarction.4The recognition of several cases of acute, primary or non-specific pericarditis in...Bibliography1. BarnesBurchell ARHB: Acute pericarditis simulating acute coronary occlusion, Am. Heart J. 23: 247, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Wolff L: Acute pericarditis simulating myocardial infarction, New England J. Med. 230: 422, 1944. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Burchell HB: Acute non-specific pericarditis, Modern Concepts of Cardiovascular Dis. 16: 1947, No. 3. Google Scholar4. Butsch WL: Acute pericarditis as a post-operative complication, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clin. 12:737, 1937. Google Scholar5. Porter WB: Acute pericarditis, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, 1945, F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia. Google Scholar6. SmalleyRuddock REJC: Acute pericarditis: a study of eighteen cases among service personnel, Ann. Int. Med. 25: 799, 1946. LinkGoogle Scholar7. BurchWinsor GT: A primer of electrocardiography, 1946, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia. Google Scholar8. NayBoyer RMNH: Acute pericarditis in young adults, Am. Heart J. 32: 222, 1946. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. SmithWillius HLFA: Pericarditis. IV. Fibrinous pericarditis and soldier's patches, Arch. Int. Med. 50: 410, 1932. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Albany, New York*Received for publication October 9, 1948.From the Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College, Union University and Albany Hospital, Albany, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byElectrocardiographic abnormalities in acute, convalescent, and recurrent stages of idiopathic pericarditisHEMORRHAGIC PERICARDIAL FLUID IN ACUTE BENIGN NONSPECIFIC PERICARDITIS: REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE*CEILOUS L. WILLIAMS JR., M.D., JULIAN R. BECKWITH, M.D., F.A.C.P., J. EDWIN WOOD JR., M.D., F.A.C.P.Herz- und Kreislaufstörungen bei InfektionskrankheitenHerz- und Kreislaufstörungen bei InfektionskrankheitenStudies in pericarditisIdiopathic recurrent pericarditisAcute PericarditisAcute Non-Specific Pericarditis.RECURRENT TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS*RAY C. JANOVSKY, M.D., JOHN F. BOETTNER, M.D., H. SCOTT VANORDSTRAND, M.D., F.A.C.P., DONALD B. EFFLER, M.D.Fibrinous Pericarditis Secondary to Esophageal UlcerationMYOCARDIAL INVOLVEMENT IN ACUTE NONSPECIFIC PERICARDITIS: A REPORT OF THREE CASES*JOHN GODFREY, M.D.Nearly ten decades of interest in idiopathic pericarditisAcute Nonspecific Pericarditis 1 May 1950Volume 32, Issue 5Page: 935-948KeywordsEtiologyHospital medicineIschemiaMedical servicesPneumoniaRheumatic feverSepsisTuberculosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1950 PDF downloadLoading ...