Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis

We describe a case of rheumatoid vasculitis with an atypical presentation of constrictive pericarditis. A 51-year-old man who was previously admitted for diffuse lymphadenopathy, presented with chest pain and a lower extremity rash. Extensive workup including multimodality imaging, serology tests, a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kharsa, Adnan, Chowdhury, Medhat, Tan, Bryan E-Xin, Abu Sheikha, Mohammad, Baibhav, Bipul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233320
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21643
_version_ 1784659384717017088
author Kharsa, Adnan
Chowdhury, Medhat
Tan, Bryan E-Xin
Abu Sheikha, Mohammad
Baibhav, Bipul
author_facet Kharsa, Adnan
Chowdhury, Medhat
Tan, Bryan E-Xin
Abu Sheikha, Mohammad
Baibhav, Bipul
author_sort Kharsa, Adnan
collection PubMed
description We describe a case of rheumatoid vasculitis with an atypical presentation of constrictive pericarditis. A 51-year-old man who was previously admitted for diffuse lymphadenopathy, presented with chest pain and a lower extremity rash. Extensive workup including multimodality imaging, serology tests, and biopsy, resulted in the diagnosis of rheumatoid vasculitis.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8881092
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher Cureus
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-88810922022-02-28 Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis Kharsa, Adnan Chowdhury, Medhat Tan, Bryan E-Xin Abu Sheikha, Mohammad Baibhav, Bipul Cureus Cardiology We describe a case of rheumatoid vasculitis with an atypical presentation of constrictive pericarditis. A 51-year-old man who was previously admitted for diffuse lymphadenopathy, presented with chest pain and a lower extremity rash. Extensive workup including multimodality imaging, serology tests, and biopsy, resulted in the diagnosis of rheumatoid vasculitis. Cureus 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8881092/ /pubmed/35233320 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21643 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kharsa 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.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Kharsa, Adnan
Chowdhury, Medhat
Tan, Bryan E-Xin
Abu Sheikha, Mohammad
Baibhav, Bipul
Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title_full Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title_fullStr Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title_full_unstemmed Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title_short Constrictive Pericarditis: An Unusual Presentation of Rheumatoid Vasculitis
title_sort constrictive pericarditis: an unusual presentation of rheumatoid vasculitis
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35233320
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21643
work_keys_str_mv AT kharsaadnan constrictivepericarditisanunusualpresentationofrheumatoidvasculitis
AT chowdhurymedhat constrictivepericarditisanunusualpresentationofrheumatoidvasculitis
AT tanbryanexin constrictivepericarditisanunusualpresentationofrheumatoidvasculitis
AT abusheikhamohammad constrictivepericarditisanunusualpresentationofrheumatoidvasculitis
AT baibhavbipul constrictivepericarditisanunusualpresentationofrheumatoidvasculitis

Ejemplares similares