Advances in Diagnosis and Therapeutics in Recurrent Autoimmune Pericarditis in Pregnancy

Samia Mazumder; Rehan Karmali; Parvathy Sankar; Muhammad Majid; Alveena Batool Syed; Felix Berglund; Faiz Ahmed; Jameson Mitchell; Brittany Weber; Allan L Klein

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102046

Advances in Diagnosis and Therapeutics in Recurrent Autoimmune Pericarditis in Pregnancy

JACC Case Rep. 2023 Dec 6:27:102046. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102046.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
² Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases, Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

Pericarditis in pregnancy is uncommon, and there is a paucity of data regarding the safety and efficacy of conventional therapy. We describe a complex case of recurrent pericarditis in the setting of pregnancy and newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus and discuss the challenges in managing this subset of patients.

Keywords: autoimmune disease; pericarditis; pregnancy; recurrent pericarditis; systemic lupus erythematosus.

Publication types

Case Reports