A patient with Poland syndrome presents with acute pericarditis, underscoring diagnostic hurdles in chest pain due to ...

Treatment with goflikicept, an anti-cytokine biologic, allows patients to discontinue other therapies for idiopathic recurrent pericarditis (IRP) and reduces the risk for recurrence compared with ...

Pericarditis is an immune condition, not, strictly speaking, a cardiologic condition. Wax had been physically active ...

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I was finishing up some paperwork to discharge a patient when a nurse asked me to look at an EKG and said, “I’ll meet you in room 18.” I adjusted my face mask and goggles, grabbed my stethoscope, and ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers assessed the risk of myocarditis or pericarditis after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger ...

Pericarditis is inflammation of the sac around the heart, called the pericardium. If pericarditis becomes chronic, it can lead to pericardial effusion. This is when the pericardium fills with fluid.

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare disorder that occurs when the thin sac that surrounds and protects the heart becomes stiff and thick, limiting the heart’s ability to pump blood. Symptoms may ...