TY - JOUR T1 - Pleuritic chest pain in a 58-year-old man JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 1271 LP - 1271 DO - 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-305663 VL - 100 IS - 16 AU - Jessica A Cudmore AU - Wilson Lam AU - Iain D C Kirkpatrick AU - Colette M Seifer Y1 - 2014/08/15 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/100/16/1271.abstract N2 - A 58-year-old man with pleuritic chest pain presented for evaluation. He had a remote history of gastric surgery. There was a pericardial friction rub identified. A 12-lead ECG was consistent with acute pericarditis. Further imaging including a chest X-ray and CT scan of the chest was performed and a diagnosis was achieved. A 58-year-old man was seen in the emergency department for evaluation of 2 days of central pleuritic chest pain, worse when supine. He described a 2-week history of non-productive cough, fever and progressive generalised malaise. His past medical history was significant for gastric cancer treated surgically with an oesophagectomy and partial gastrectomy with a left … ER -