Key result
Acute pericarditis may present as the initial clinical feature of proximal aortic dissection.
Case Report (n=1)
Acute pericarditis can be the presenting manifestation of proximal aortic dissection, highlighting the need to consider dissection in patients presenting with pericardial chest pain.
Clinicians should consider aortic dissection in pericarditis-like presentations; this Level 5 case leaves open prospective validation of diagnostic yield.
Development of pericarditis is not an unexpected condition in cases with proximal aortic dissection. 1 2 However, as in our case, pericarditis with its full clinical characteristics may be the presenting feature of aortic dissection.Our case shows that acute pericarditis, particularly its characteristic pericardial chest pain, may dominate the clinical picture by mimicking characteristic chest pain of acute dissection.
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Hursit Soyer (2016) conducted a case report in Aortic dissection presenting as acute pericarditis (n=1). Aortic dissection was evaluated on Clinical presentation. Acute pericarditis and its characteristic chest pain may be the presenting clinical feature of proximal aortic dissection, mimicking the typical pain of acute dissection.
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