TY - JOUR
T1 - Myopericarditis as an initial presentation of meningococcemia. Unusual manifestation of infection with serotype W135
AU - Brasier, Allan R.
AU - Macklis, Jeffrey D.
AU - Vaughan, Doug
AU - Warner, Laurel
AU - Kirshenbaum, James M.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Cardiovascular and Infectious Disease Divisions, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. This work was supported in part by Grant 5432 HL-07049 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Requests for reprints shuld be addressed to Dr. James M. Kirshenbaum, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. Manuscript submitted December 1985, and accepted January 22, 1986.
PY - 1987/3/23
Y1 - 1987/3/23
N2 - Acute meningococcemia is a dramatic clinical syndrome from infection with the gram-negative diplococcus, Neisseria meningitidis. Although pericarditis may complicate the course of meningococcemia, it is distinctly unusual as a presenting sign. A case of disseminated meningococcemia presenting as acute myopericarditis is reported. The serotype isolated, type W135, was a sporadic cause of N. meningitidis in the Boston area. Although the patient had meningitis, bacteremia, and myopericarditis, his course was uncomplicated with early institution of antibiotic therapy.
AB - Acute meningococcemia is a dramatic clinical syndrome from infection with the gram-negative diplococcus, Neisseria meningitidis. Although pericarditis may complicate the course of meningococcemia, it is distinctly unusual as a presenting sign. A case of disseminated meningococcemia presenting as acute myopericarditis is reported. The serotype isolated, type W135, was a sporadic cause of N. meningitidis in the Boston area. Although the patient had meningitis, bacteremia, and myopericarditis, his course was uncomplicated with early institution of antibiotic therapy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9343(87)90115-X
DO - 10.1016/0002-9343(87)90115-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 3103444
AN - SCOPUS:0023612156
SN - 0002-9343
VL - 82
SP - 641
EP - 644
JO - The American Journal of Medicine
JF - The American Journal of Medicine
IS - 3 SUPPL.
ER -