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A previously healthy 50-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of sharp pleuritic chest pain on the left side, dry cough, and palpitations and a 4-week history of intermittent fevers, chills, anorexia, weight loss, and fatigue.

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 383; no. 19; pp. 1878 - 1884
Main Authors:	Kushwaha, Sameer, Bogoch, Isaac I, Mak, Susanna, Rogalla, Patrik, Detsky, Allan S
Format:	Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	United States Massachusetts Medical Society 05-11-2020
Subjects:	Acids Alcohol Anorexia Antibodies Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use Bacterial infections Biopsy Cancer Case reports Cough Dehydrogenases Diagnostic Errors Edema Emergency medical care Heart - diagnostic imaging Hemoglobin Hepatitis Humans Laboratories Lymphoma Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Middle Aged Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Pericardiectomy Pericarditis, Tuberculous - diagnosis Pericarditis, Tuberculous - diagnostic imaging Pericarditis, Tuberculous - drug therapy Pericardium - microbiology Pericardium - pathology Pericardium - surgery Phosphatase Tomography, X-Ray Computed Tuberculosis Viruses Philippines
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Summary:	A previously healthy 50-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of sharp pleuritic chest pain on the left side, dry cough, and palpitations and a 4-week history of intermittent fevers, chills, anorexia, weight loss, and fatigue.
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ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMcps2002083