Acute Pericarditis
Acute Pericarditis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Acute pericarditis is painful inflammation of the pericardium, the fluid-filled pouch surrounding your heart. The pain usually gets worse when you're lying down ...
Acute Pericarditis: Practice Essentials, Background, Anatomy
Background. Acute pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium characterized by pericarditic chest pain, pericardial friction rub, and ...
Pericarditis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Acute pericarditis begins suddenly but doesn't last longer than four weeks. Future episodes can occur. · Fluid buildup around the heart, also ...
Acute Pericarditis: Diagnosis and Management - AAFP
Patients with acute pericarditis commonly present with acute, sharp, retrosternal chest pain that is relieved by sitting or leaning forward.
Pericarditis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
Types of pericarditis. Acute pericarditis: Inflammation of the pericardium that develops suddenly along with the sudden onset of symptoms. Chronic pericarditis: ...
Heart Inflammation - Pericarditis | NHLBI, NIH
Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium — the sac surrounding the heart. This sac is made of two thin layers of tissue with a small ...
Acute Pericarditis - Merck Manual Consumer Version
Symptoms of Acute Pericarditis · Usually acute pericarditis causes sharp chest pain, which often extends to the left shoulder and sometimes down the left arm.
Acute pericarditis: Clinical presentation and diagnosis - UpToDate
Outline · Chest pain · Pericardial friction rub · Electrocardiogram · - Typical ECG findings · - Atypical ECG findings · - Arrhythmias · - ...
Acute Pericarditis - The New England Journal of Medicine
The diagnosis of acute pericarditis requires at least two of the following symptoms or signs to be present: typical chest pain, pericardial friction rub, ...
Although acute pericarditis is most often associated with viral infection, it may also be caused by many diseases, drugs, ...
Pericarditis - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Clinically, acute pericarditis is indicated by a characteristic description of chest pain and the presence of a pericardial friction rub upon auscultation.
Acute pericarditis: Treatment and prognosis - UpToDate
Outline · - Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs · NSAID dosing · Gastrointestinal protection · Bleeding risk of NSAIDs combined with other ...
Diagnosis of acute pericarditis - European Society of Cardiology
Diagnosis of acute pericarditis ... Acute pericarditis, the most common pericardial syndrome in clinical practice, is diagnosed based on two of ...
Acute Pericarditis - ScienceDirect.com
Pericarditis may involve the phrenic nerve which innervates the trapezius muscles, resulting in pain in the back and shoulders. The pain may radiate to the neck ...
Acute Pericarditis - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Acute pericarditis is a syndrome arising from an inflammatory or an infectious disease or an inflammatory state that follows an infection.
Acute Pericarditis: Current Concepts and Practice - JAMA Network
A monophasic, diphasic, or triphasic pericardial rub is diagnostic of acute pericarditis. ... Although rubs are virtually 100% specific, ...
Indicators of Poor Prognosis of Acute Pericarditis | Circulation
Specific clinical features (fever >38°C, subacute course, large effusion or tamponade, and aspirin or NSAID failure) may be useful to identify higher risk of ...
Acute Pericarditis Differential Diagnoses - Medscape Reference
Acute pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium characterized by chest pain, pericardial friction rub, and serial ECG changes.
Clinical Profile and Influences on Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized ...
Acute pericarditis is an inflammatory disease of the pericardial sac commonly triggered by a viral infection. The epidemiology of acute ...
Acute Pericarditis: Update | Current Cardiology Reports
Acute pericarditis is the most common inflammatory heart disorder, ahead of acute myocarditis and infective endocarditis.