ACUTE NON-SPECIFIC PERICARDITIS

Abstract

cases reported from the United States (Barnes and Burchell, 1942; Carmichael et al., 1951; Scherl, 1956; Chapman and Overholt, 1957) and Scandinavia Accounts from this country are limited to smaller numbers of patients (Davies, 1952; Bower et al., 1953; Will and Fleming, 1958). A clear pattern emerges from these reports and it is not proposed to describe the syndrome in elaborate detail but rather to emphasize certain unusual features and difficulties that have occurred in the present series of fourteen patients.