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

Waddah Aljaely Mohamed OsmanAbdelmuniem Siddig Mohamed AhmedMohammed Mahmmoud Fadel Allah Eljack Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed AhmedMazin S HarounYassin Abdelrahim Abdalla

Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)

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.

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