Acute pericarditis

HIGH-YIELD Appears 4×

Teaching point

Pleuritic chest pain worse lying back and relieved leaning forward, often post-viral, with widespread/anterior ST elevation and an enlarged cardiac silhouette, is pericarditis. Treat with NSAID plus colchicine.

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