Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Cardiac injuries are among the complications caused by COVID-19. This report presents the case of a 25-year-old patient hospitalized due to Coronavirus infection with the c...

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Autores principales: Singh, Arminder, Nguyen, Lam, Everest, Stephanie, Shastri, Pinang, Alemu, Rahel H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106244
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20709
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author Singh, Arminder
Nguyen, Lam
Everest, Stephanie
Shastri, Pinang
Alemu, Rahel H
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description The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Cardiac injuries are among the complications caused by COVID-19. This report presents the case of a 25-year-old patient hospitalized due to Coronavirus infection with the complication of recurrent acute pericarditis. The patient was treated with colchicine and high-dose ibuprofen, and the patient was then discharged in stable condition. This report demonstrates an effective treatment plan for acute pericarditis secondary to COVID-19 infection.
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spelling pubmed-87892022022-01-31 Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection Singh, Arminder Nguyen, Lam Everest, Stephanie Shastri, Pinang Alemu, Rahel H Cureus Cardiology The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Cardiac injuries are among the complications caused by COVID-19. This report presents the case of a 25-year-old patient hospitalized due to Coronavirus infection with the complication of recurrent acute pericarditis. The patient was treated with colchicine and high-dose ibuprofen, and the patient was then discharged in stable condition. This report demonstrates an effective treatment plan for acute pericarditis secondary to COVID-19 infection. Cureus 2021-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8789202/ /pubmed/35106244 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20709 Text en Copyright © 2021, Singh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Singh, Arminder
Nguyen, Lam
Everest, Stephanie
Shastri, Pinang
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Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_full Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_fullStr Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_full_unstemmed Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_short Acute Pericarditis Secondary to COVID-19 Infection
title_sort acute pericarditis secondary to covid-19 infection
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106244
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20709
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