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Acute pericarditis presenting with sinus bradycardia: a case report
A T Gosselink1, M P van den Berg, H J Crijns
1Department of Cardiology/Thoraxcenter, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
International Journal of Cardiology
|August 8, 1997
Abstract:
Acute pericarditis is almost invariably associated with sinus tachycardia. Recent-onset chest pain in the presence of (sinus) bradycardia is considered to be associated with an acute ischemic syndrome rather than acute pericarditis. This report describes a patient with acute pericarditis initially presenting with sinus bradycardia, probably due to a vasovagal response to (chest) pain.