Acute Pericarditis as the First Manifestation of Infectious Mononucleosis

Case Reports1 August 1957ACUTE PERICARDITIS AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSISDAVID M. ROSEMAN, M.D., RICHARD M. BARRY, M.D.DAVID M. ROSEMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, RICHARD M. BARRY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-2-351 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDespite the publication in recent years of numerous case reports of acute nonspecific pericarditis, little progress has been made in defining its etiology. Clinical manifestations have been adequately reviewed.1, 2, 3 The syndrome, sometimes following an upper respiratory infection, is characterized by anterior chest pain of pericardial origin, often with a pleuritic component which may be influenced by position. Moderate enlargement of the cardiac silhouette is common and is usually attributed to a small pericardial effusion. Pleural effusion may also occur. The electrocardiographic changes follow the typical evolutionary pattern of acute pericarditis.Infectious mononucleosis, on the other hand, is a...Bibliography1. CarmichaelSpragueWymanBland DBHBSMEF: Acute non-specific pericarditis: clinical, laboratory and followup considerations, Circulation 3: 321-331, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Goyette EM: Acute idiopathic pericarditis, Ann. Int. Med. 39: 1032-1044, 1953. LinkGoogle Scholar3. Krook H: Acute non-specific pericarditis, Acta med. Scandinav. 148: 201-218, 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. WechslerRosenblumSills HFAHCT: Infectious mononucleosis: report of an epidemic in an Army post, Ann. Int. Med. 25: 236-265, 1946. LinkGoogle Scholar5. JaffeFieldMaster HLLEAM: Electrocardiogram in infectious mononucleosis, New York State J. Med. 48: 1382-1385, 1948. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. EvansGraybiel WFA: Electrocardiographic evidence of cardiac complications in infectious mononucleosis, Am. J. M. Sc. 211: 220-226, 1946. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. CusterSmith RPEB: The pathology of infectious mononucleosis, Blood 3: 830-857, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8. Leibowitz S: Infectious mononucleosis, Modern Medical Monographs, 1953, Grune and Stratton, New York, pp. 46-54. Google Scholar9. De FazioMarsico VF: Complicanze cardiache nel corso della mononucleosi infettiva; un caso di pericardite, Progr. med., Napoli 7: 545-550, 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar10. MillerUricchioPhillips HJFRW: Acute pericarditis associated with infectious mononucleosis, New England J. Med. 249: 136-140, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. SoloffZatuchni LAJ: Infectious mononucleosis associated with symptoms of acute pericarditis, J. A. M. A. 152: 1530-1531, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. Kramer ML, cited by Leibowitz, S.: Infectious mononucleosis, Modern Medical Monographs, 1953, Grune and Stratton, New York, p. 50. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N. Y.*Received for publication March 17, 1956.From the Department of Medicine, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.Requests for reprints should be addressed to David M. Roseman, M.D.11 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York 21, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byCase 34-1980Mononucleosis infectiosa (Pfeiffer’sches Drüsenfieber)Mononucleosis infectiosa (Pfeiffer’sches Drüsenfieber)Pericarditis due to infectious mononucleosisRelapsing Coxsackie Pericarditis Simulating Myocardial Infarction and Da Costa's SyndromeTreatment of Infectious MononucleosisHAROLD R. SCHUMACHER, WILLIAM A. JACOBSON, CARL R. BEMILLER, M.D.Pericarditis: A ten year surveyMyokarditis und weitere Myokardiopathien 1 August 1957Volume 47, Issue 2Page: 351-356KeywordsElectrocardiographyEtiologyIschemiaPharyngitisPhosphatasesPleural effusionUpper respiratory tract infections ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...