Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2022)

Acute pericarditis complicated with pericardial effusion as first presentation of COVID‐19 in an adult sudanese patient: A case report

  • Waddah Aljaely Mohamed Osman,
  • Abdelmuniem Siddig Mohamed Ahmed,
  • Moh. Mah. Fadelallah Eljack,
  • Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed,
  • Mazin S. Haroun,
  • Yassin Abdelrahim Abdalla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5570
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

Read online

Abstract Acute pericarditis is an uncommon presentation of COVID‐19. Here, we described a case of a 50‐year‐old male patient who presented with chest pain without fever or cough and diagnosed with acute pericarditis complicated by pericardial effusion due to COVID‐19 after exclusion of other causes and received supportive treatment and improved over two weeks.

Keywords