Acute onset of constrictive pericarditis due to acute myelomonocytic leukemia: A case and literature review

Intern Med. 2024 Apr 16. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.3505-24. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe herein present a fatal case of constrictive pericarditis (CP) due to acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML) in a patient who initially complained of an acute onset of chest pain two days after COVID-19 vaccination. An autopsy revealed pericardial infiltration of leukemic cells. CP is rarely associated with leukemia and only 14 cases have been reported in the literature. The etiology of CP in previous reports included leukemic infiltration, graft-versus-host disease, drug-induced, post-radiation, autoimmune, and otherwise unidentified. This case indicates that leukemic infiltration can cause CP and that clinicians should include leukemia in the differential diagnosis of CP.PMID:38631853 | DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.3505-24

Source: Internal Medicine - April 17, 2024 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Naoki Kosaka Takanori Uchiyama Masahiro Onozawa Jun Nagai Jiro Koya Suguru Ishizaka Toshiyuki Nagai Yohei Ikebe Kenjiro Kato Zen-Ichi Tanei Jun Sakakibara-Konishi Yuta Hasegawa Hiroyuki Ohigashi Hideki Goto Daigo Hashimoto Hideki Ujiie Satoshi Hirano Sato Source Type: research