Sweet Syndrome With Painless Skin Lesions and Myopericarditis

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Sweet Syndrome With Painless Skin Lesions and Myopericarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review, 2025.

- 47-year-old Filipino lady presented with a fever for 4 days.

- Feeling generally unwell with a lack of energy. Also, headache, sweating, chills, vomiting, and abdominal pain. The headache, vomiting, and abdominal pain began after the patient had started taking antibiotics, but stopped when she discontinued them.

- 2 painless skin lesions on the back of the right hand. Sweet's syndrome lesions are normally painful, sometimes excruciatingly so.

- Blood tests showed abnormal liver and heart function. Electrocardiogram and echocardiogram showed abnormalities.

- Skin biopsy confirmed Sweet's syndrome.

- Patient diagnosed with myopericarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle and the sac around it) and mild hepatitis (inflammation of liver) directly caused by Sweet's syndrome. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...