MYOPERICARDITIS : AN UNUSUAL INITIAL PRESENTATION OF UCTD

Abstract

Diagnosis of connective tissue diseases is often delayed because the initial symptoms are few and non specic. A new entity called undifferentiated connective tissue disease(UCTD) has been recently described. It is a diagnosis of exclusion. We report the case of a 40yr old female, not a known case of any connective tissue disorder who presented to us with fever, dyspnea and chest pain as initial symptoms and nally diagnosed as myopericarditis secondary to UCTD.