INTRODUCTION In general, pericardial diseases in small animal practice are rare, with pericardial effusion being the most commonly encountered pericardial disease. Septic pericarditis, although well recognised in cattle and humans, has rarely been reported in either the dog or cat. Septic pericarditis can result from pleural or pulmonary infections, secondary to trauma, or from haematogenous sp...

A case of acute varigate porphyria associated with meningism, pericarditis/myocarditis is presented and relevance in treatment discussed(JPMA36:1986). MENINGISM, PERICARDITIS/MYOCARDITIS ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE VARIGATE

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...

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare type of pericardial disease that can be caused by various factors. Tuberculosis (TB) one the most common causes this abnormality in Indonesia. Interestingly, tuberculous constrictive occur absence acute pericarditis, pulmonary, or extrapulmonary TB. This case described male adolescent with refractory right-sided heart failure symptoms who developed rapidly pr...

discussion transthoracic echocardiography disclosed massive pericardial effusion, respiratory variation in mitral and tricuspid inflow e velocity, increased diastolic flow reversal with expiration in the hepatic vein, septum deviation in inspiration toward the left ventricle (lv), preserved lv function, and inferior vena caval (ivc) dilation without any collapse in inspiration. chest computed t...

AIM To conduct a review of "interferon related pericarditis". METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cinahl, and the Cochrane Database from the earliest available date through September 2016. A search strategy using the Medical Subject Headings and text keywords "interferon" and "pericarditis" were used. RESULTS Nine case reports were eligible for the present study. Six of 8 cases were women ...

INTRODUCTION The long-term outcome of acute pericarditis with high cardiac troponin-T (cTnT) is unknown. Our purpose was to investigate the prognostic and clinical value of cTnT in myopericardial inflammatory syndromes. METHODS Between January 2001 and September 2011, 107 patients hospitalized for acute pericarditis or myopericarditis were enrolled. Postinfarction pericarditis and neoplastic ...

Common variable immune deficiency (CVID) is known as the most prevalent symptomatic inborn error of immunity associated with autoimmune and inflammatory complications in addition to recurrent infections. In this study, we investigated prevalence acute pericarditis a complication past medical history 337 CVID patients. We found five patients (1.5%) that had experienced pericarditis, described th...

The authors describe a clinical case in which they found the unusual combination of acute hepatitis caused by HCV and pericarditis in a young person, resulting in complete recovery from the pericarditis but in a deterioration of the chronic HCV. A close examination of the literature on this subject revealed that, although no similar case was recorded, an aetiological relationship between the he...