Brucella pericarditis: A forgotten cause of chest pain

BACKGROUND: Brucellosis pericarditis is an extremely rare involvement of the cardiovascular system with Brucella species that has worldwide distribution and is endemic in many provinces of Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: The present report describes an exceptional case of pericardial involvement by Brucell...

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Autores principales: Sabzi, Feridoun, Faraji, Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Babol University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5494047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28702152
http://dx.doi.org/10.22088/cjim.8.2.116
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description BACKGROUND: Brucellosis pericarditis is an extremely rare involvement of the cardiovascular system with Brucella species that has worldwide distribution and is endemic in many provinces of Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: The present report describes an exceptional case of pericardial involvement by Brucella melitensis in a 50- year-old woman. The patient presented with night sweats, mild fever, weight loss, and chest pain. CONCLUSION: Pericarditis occurs during the course of brucellosis as an isolated cardiac symptom and may be asymptomatic or may be manifested with chest pain as ischemic heart disease.
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spelling pubmed-54940472017-07-12 Brucella pericarditis: A forgotten cause of chest pain Sabzi, Feridoun Faraji, Reza Caspian J Intern Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Brucellosis pericarditis is an extremely rare involvement of the cardiovascular system with Brucella species that has worldwide distribution and is endemic in many provinces of Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: The present report describes an exceptional case of pericardial involvement by Brucella melitensis in a 50- year-old woman. The patient presented with night sweats, mild fever, weight loss, and chest pain. CONCLUSION: Pericarditis occurs during the course of brucellosis as an isolated cardiac symptom and may be asymptomatic or may be manifested with chest pain as ischemic heart disease. Babol University of Medical Sciences 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5494047/ /pubmed/28702152 http://dx.doi.org/10.22088/cjim.8.2.116 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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