PEDIATRICS Vol. 61 No. 5 May 1978, pp. 716-719
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Acute Pericarditis Associated With Hepatitis B Infection

Robert Adler M.D.1, Masato Takahashi M.D.1, and Harry T. Wright Jr. M.D., M.P.H.1

1 Divisions of General Pediatrics, Cardiology, and Infectious Diseases, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles

Patients infected with hepatitis B have demonstrated a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations other than hepatitis. Immune complex formation has been proposed as a possible mechanism for such varied disease presentations.

The present report describes a case in which acute pericarditis is associated with hepatitis B surface antigen-positive disease. Speculations are made relating the pericardial changes to the formation of immune complexes following hepatitis B virus infection.

Submitted on July 18, 1977
Accepted on September 27, 1977




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