This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (10)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

J. FREDERICK BARR, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;96(5):693-696.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

THE ETIOLOGIC diagnosis of acute pericarditis is at times difficult and expensive from the time and financial standpoint. Likewise, prognosis may be greatly affected when an etiology is discovered which previously had been unsuspected. Of such a nature is the case to be presented here.

REPORT OF CASE

A 35-year-old Negro mail-truck driver entered the hospital for his first admission with a chief complaint of fever of one month's duration. The patient had been completely well until two months before admission, at which time he noted the onset of a nonproductive cough not associated with pain. A chest x-ray at this time was interpreted as normal. These symptoms continued in progressive fashion until about a month before admission, when the development of low-grade fever sent him to his local physician, who treated him with penicillin. However, he continued to have fever (temperature to 101 F) daily. The penicillin had no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, D. C.

From the Mt. Alto Veterans Administration Hospital; Formerly Resident in Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital; Present address: Georgetown Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 5, 1955.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?