The pericardial friction rub and the cardiac enlargement were the outstanding physical findings. All the patients showed fever ranging from 100 to 103° F. and leukocytosis varying between 11,000 ...

The pericardial friction rub disappeared after the first day in the hospital. Serial electrocardiograms ( Fig. 2 ) were consistent with the diagnosis of pericarditis. The patient was discharged ...

Pericardial friction rub and pericardial effusion were associated with a lower incidence of myocardial involvement. Biomarkers were elevated in 140 patients, ...

Clinicians reporting this case note that although this patient had pleuritic chest pain, pericardial friction rub, and diffuse ST segment elevation, these symptoms may be seen more commonly in ...

What investigations should be considered? At least two of the following four criteria should be present for a diagnosis of acute pericarditis: characteristic chest pain; pericardial friction rub; ...

She has labored breathing with tachypnea (28 breaths/min), pericardial friction rub, and sinus tachycardia (118 beats/min). Diagnosis and Treatment.

The friction rub tends to be best heard at the end of expiration. Red flags would include a combination of muffled heart sounds, raised jugular venous pressure and peripheral oedema. Alarming features ...

The implications of this case are 3-fold: first, we present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of spontaneous bacterial pericarditis caused by nonencapsulated H influenzae ...

Patients were diagnosed as having acute pericarditis if they had two or more of the following: widespread ST-segment elevation seen on an electrocardiogram, pericardial friction rub and chest pain ...

Physical exam revealed temperature of 39.6°C, sinus tachycardia of 130 beats/min, blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg, normal pulses, and pericardial friction rub over left precordium.

The Means-Lerman scratch is a mid-systolic murmur heard in the setting of a hyperthyroid state at the left upper sternal border and end-expiration.

This is thought to occur from rubbing of the pericardium against the the pleura in the high output, hyperdynamic states of hyperthyroidism and may sound similar to a pericardial friction rub as ...