Acupuncture related acute purulent pericarditis masquerading uremic pericarditis

• Main Authors: Waqas Ullah, Sohaib Roomi, Zeeshan Sattar, Asrar Ahmad, Zain Ali, Usman Sarwar, Vincent Figueredo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-05-01
• Series: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
• Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; interventional cardiology; pericardial disease; acupuncture; uremia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2019.1622380

We are reporting a rare case of acupuncture-related acute pericarditis in an old-aged gentleman due to Staphylococcus aureus infection who was successfully managed with drainage of pericardial fluid and broad-spectrum antibiotics. We also reviewed the literature and found cardiac tamponade as the most common acupuncture-related cardiac complication, followed by infective endocarditis, bacterial abscess, and infected myxoma. There was no available literature on post-acupuncture acute pericarditis.