Case 17-2022: A 17-Year-Old Boy with Chest Pain

A 17-year-old boy was admitted to the pediatric ICU with chest pain, syncope, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and elevated creatine kinase and troponin T. He had been well until 5 days earlier, when fever, nausea, diarrhea, muscle aches, and chest pain developed.

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 386; no. 23; pp. 2222 - 2231
Main Authors Arya, Puneeta, Westra, Sjirk J., Benavidez, Oscar J., Natter, Marc D., Murali, Mandakolathur R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 09.06.2022
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescent Medicine
Allergy
Analgesics
Autoimmune Disease
Autoimmune diseases
Blood pressure
Calcium-binding protein
Cardiology
Cardiology General
Cardiomyopathy
Case reports
Chest
Chest Pain - etiology
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Medicine General
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Creatine
Creatine kinase
Density
Diarrhea
Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine General
Fever
Hospital-Based Clinical Medicine
Hospitals
Humans
Hypertension
Immunology
Laboratories
Male
Myocarditis
Nausea
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Outpatient-Based Clinical Medicine
Oxygen saturation
Pain
Pediatrics
Pericarditis
Primary care
Rheumatology
Rheumatology General
Sinuses
Syncope
Teenagers
Troponin
Troponin T
Urinalysis
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Summary:A 17-year-old boy was admitted to the pediatric ICU with chest pain, syncope, electrocardiographic abnormalities, and elevated creatine kinase and troponin T. He had been well until 5 days earlier, when fever, nausea, diarrhea, muscle aches, and chest pain developed.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMcpc1909620