Case reports
Drug induced chest pain
rare but important
Patrick Davey, David G Lalloo
Nuffield
Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU,
UK
Correspondence to: Dr Davey (e-mail: patrick.davey{at}ndm.ox.ac.uk)
Submitted 12 March
1999;
Accepted 16 December 1999
Pericarditis, usually viral in origin, is an infrequent
cause of chest pain. Pericarditis due to drug allergy is even less frequent and is thus rarely considered in the differential diagnosis. A
case is reported of a woman who presented with severe chest pain,
caused by minocycline induced pericarditis. Such allergy may
be more common than reported. It is suggested that drug induced pericarditis should be included in the differential diagnosis of acute chest pain.
Keywords: chest pain; pericarditis; minocycline; drug allergy
© 2000 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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