title: Acute meningococcal pericarditis without meningitis.
abstract: Meningococcla pericarditis without evidence of meningitis of pericardial effusion in an 18-year-old man was cured following a ten-day course of orally administered ampicillin. Acute pericarditis resembling benign or viral pericarditis amy rarely be due to N meningitidis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*
chemical_list: D000667:Ampicillin