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Dengue fever can present unusually as acute pericarditis, demonstrated by a 40-year-old male who developed severe anterior chest pain during a high-grade fever.
Highlights acute pericarditis as a rare cardiac manifestation of dengue fever.
Pericarditis should be considered in dengue with chest pain; this case leaves open its incidence and management implications.
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection. It can affect any part of the body. We are reporting a very unusual presentation of dengue fever. A 40 years old male presented with high grade fever; he developed severe anterior chest pain and diagnosed as a case of acute pericarditis.
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Bhatti et al. (2014) studied this question. Dengue fever can present unusually as acute pericarditis, demonstrated by a 40-year-old male who developed severe anterior chest pain during a high-grade fever.
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