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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
Paraciditas? (infected heart sac for the laymen out there reading this)
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I believe the term you are looking for is pericarditis.
When I heard this case the first thing that stuck out to me was the tinnitus which is a classic sign of lithium toxicity.
I would be worried about intentional ingestion/overdose in this patient as a cause for her constellation of signs/symptoms and would need to query about suicidality.
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