Interferon related pericarditis: Review

Table 1 Case reports of pericarditis associated with interferon

Ref.	Age/gender	Disease	Administered	Duration of IFN therapy	Mechanism
Fava et al[4]	28/NA	CML	IFNα	13 mo	NA
Boonen et al[5]	24/F	CHC	IFNα	1 mo	Autoimmune
Wisniewski et al[6]	42/F	CHC	IFNα	6 h	Cardio toxicity
Gressens et al[7]	40/F	CHC	IFNα2b	3 mo	Cardio toxicity
Benjamini et al[8]	63/M	MM	IFNα2b	1 mo	Cardio toxicity
Hamdani et al[9]	53/F	CHC	PEG IFN α2a	6 mo	NA
Nishio et al[10]	67/M	CHC	PEG IFN 2a	15 d	Lupus like syndrome
Popescu et al[11]	38/F	CHC	PEG IFN 2a	7 mo	Cardio toxicity
Ashraf et al[12]	39/F	MM	IFNα	1 d	NA

CHC: Chronic hepatitis C; CML: Chronic myelogenous leukemia; F: Female; IFN: Interferon; M: Male; MM: Malignant melanoma; NA: Data not available; PEG IFN: Pegylated interferon.