Man with Pleuritic Chest Pain

CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of epipericardial fat necrosis. DISCUSSION: Epipericardial fat necrosis is an inflammatory condition in which the pericardial fat pad necrotizes resulting in surrounding inflammation. This condition mimics more ominous pathology in clinical presentation and radi...

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Autores principales: Greiving, Tanner George, Mehta, Sumeru G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2023
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Images in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36859328
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.10.57915
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description CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of epipericardial fat necrosis. DISCUSSION: Epipericardial fat necrosis is an inflammatory condition in which the pericardial fat pad necrotizes resulting in surrounding inflammation. This condition mimics more ominous pathology in clinical presentation and radiographic findings. Management is supportive with oral analgesics.
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spelling pubmed-99833372023-03-04 Man with Pleuritic Chest Pain Greiving, Tanner George Mehta, Sumeru G. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Images in Emergency Medicine CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of epipericardial fat necrosis. DISCUSSION: Epipericardial fat necrosis is an inflammatory condition in which the pericardial fat pad necrotizes resulting in surrounding inflammation. This condition mimics more ominous pathology in clinical presentation and radiographic findings. Management is supportive with oral analgesics. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2023-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9983337/ /pubmed/36859328 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.10.57915 Text en © 2023 Greiving et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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