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Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Pericarditis
- Medical condition.image
- Pericarditis10.JPG
- Medical condition.caption
- An ECG showing pericarditis, with ST elevation in multiple leads and slight reciprocal ST depression in aVR.
- Medical condition.width
- 350px
- Medical condition.field
- Cardiology
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Sharp chest pain, better sitting up and worse with lying down, fever
- Medical condition.complications
- Cardiac tamponade, myocarditis, constrictive pericarditis
- Medical condition.onset
- Typically sudden
- Medical condition.duration
- Few days to weeks
- Medical condition.causes
- Viral infection, tuberculosis, uremic pericarditis, following a heart attack, cancer, autoimmune disorders, chest trauma
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Based on symptoms, electrocardiogram, fluid around the heart
- Medical condition.differential
- Heart attack
- Medical condition.treatment
- NSAIDs, colchicine, corticosteroids
- Medical condition.prognosis
- Usually good
- Medical condition.frequency
- 3 per 10,000 per year
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
19,309 papers- Acute Pericarditis.Progress in cardiovascular diseases · 2017
- Autoimmune Pericarditis: Diagnosis and New Therapeutics.Current cardiology reports · 2025
- Pericarditis in Systemic Rheumatologic Diseases.Current cardiology reports · 2020
- Recurrent Pericarditis.Progress in cardiovascular diseases · 2017
- Idiopathic Pericarditis-an Autoinflammatory Disease?Current rheumatology reports · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Pericarditis10.JPG
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- Commons category
- Pericarditis
- health specialty
- cardiology
- afflicts
- pericardium
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34915
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001701
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- (S)-(−)-colchicine
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- inflammation
Sources (7)
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