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. 1980 May;43(5):597–599. doi: 10.1136/hrt.43.5.597

Herpes zoster pericarditis.

C R Winfield, S P Joseph
PMCID: PMC482348  PMID: 6246908

Abstract

A healthy 22-year-old man developed acute varicella pericarditis, characterised by an enanthem with diagnostic rising titres of varicella zoster antibodies but without the typical exanthem. This, the third reported case of varicella pericarditis, is the first to be documented without a typical varicella eruption.

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