Acute non-specific pericarditis.

Acute non-specific pericarditis.

Newer aspects of diagnostic and therapeutic management of acute idiopathic pericarditis.

Acute pericarditis continues to present a challenge to the clinician from the point of view of etiology and differential diagnosis as well as treatment. Acute pericarditis occurring in the course of myocardial infarction, neo-plastic diseases and advanced renal disease with uremia may be accepted as directly related to these disorders. It poses, however, an etiologic and differential diagnostic...

Acute pericarditis.

Although acute pericarditis is most often associated with viral infection, it may also be caused by many diseases, drugs, invasive cardiothoracic procedures, and chest trauma. Diagnosing acute pericarditis is often a process of exclusion. A history of abrupt-onset chest pain, the presence of a pericardial friction rub, and changes on electrocardiography suggest acute pericarditis, as do PR-segm...

[Diagnosis and management of acute pericardial syndromes].

Essentially, acute pericardial syndromes include acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade. This article focuses on the diagnosis and management of acute pericarditis. In Spain, most cases of acute pericarditis whose etiology is not apparent at initial clinical presentation are either idiopathic or viral pericarditis, which follow a benign or self-limiting clinical course (although tamponade may...

Risk of constrictive pericarditis after acute pericarditis.

BACKGROUND Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is considered a rare, dreaded possible complication of acute pericarditis. Nevertheless, there is a lack of prospective studies that have evaluated the specific risk according to different etiologies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk of CP after acute pericarditis in a prospective cohort study with long-term follow-up. METHODS AND RESULTS...