Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?

A majority of acute pericarditis cases have some degree of myocarditis. Viruses are the common etiological factor of this disease. Corticosteroids are considered for treatment, especially in recurrent models of the disease. In this article, we report the case of a 47-year-old man with myopericarditi...

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Autor principal: Tajdini, Masih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26557749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2015.03.007
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description A majority of acute pericarditis cases have some degree of myocarditis. Viruses are the common etiological factor of this disease. Corticosteroids are considered for treatment, especially in recurrent models of the disease. In this article, we report the case of a 47-year-old man with myopericarditis who was under daily intra-muscular dexamethasone injection for an unknown reason. This is a unique case of spontaneous myopericarditis under corticosteroid abuse that has not been reported previously.
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spelling pubmed-46148922015-11-10 Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword? Tajdini, Masih J Saudi Heart Assoc Case Report A majority of acute pericarditis cases have some degree of myocarditis. Viruses are the common etiological factor of this disease. Corticosteroids are considered for treatment, especially in recurrent models of the disease. In this article, we report the case of a 47-year-old man with myopericarditis who was under daily intra-muscular dexamethasone injection for an unknown reason. This is a unique case of spontaneous myopericarditis under corticosteroid abuse that has not been reported previously. Elsevier 2015-10 2015-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4614892/ /pubmed/26557749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2015.03.007 Text en © 2015 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?
title_full Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?
title_fullStr Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?
title_short Spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: A double-edged sword?
title_sort spontaneous myopericarditis in a patient under dexamethasone: a double-edged sword?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26557749
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2015.03.007
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