Abstract
effective drugs, and that these should he tried prior to instituting steriod therapy. The importance of recognizing pericarditis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease is demonstrated by the development of cardiac tamponade in the patients described by Breitenstein et a1.6 as well as those reported by Rheingold.4 Pericarditis must therefore be considered in every patient with inflammatory bowel disease who develops chest pain, and conversely, occult inflammatory bowel disease should be excluded when investigating any patient with pericarditis of obscure origin.7
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