BACKGROUND Tuberculous pericarditis is considered to be a paucibacillary process; the large pericardial fluid accumulation is attributed to an inflammatory response to tuberculoproteins. Mortality rates are high. We investigated the role of clinical and microbial factors predictive of tuberculous pericarditis mortality using the artificial intelligence algorithm termed classification and regres...

Exudative pericarditis, and in particular a purulent type, is a rare condition which requires emergency medical intervention. In our paper we present a case report concerning a patient with purulent pericarditis.

BACKGROUND Pleuropericarditis after pacemaker (IPG) implantation is a rare post-cardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) condition. Pericarditis one of the complications following insertion IPG; it affects 2-5% patients within 5-21 days IPG implementation and associated with screw-in (active fixation) atrial lead positioning. Usually, pericarditis benign has self-limiting course. The mechanism this compl...

Pericarditis is a common disorder that has multiple causes and presents in various primary-care and secondary-care settings. It is diagnosed in 0.1% of all hospital admissions and in 5% of emergency room visits for chest pain. Despite the advance of new diagnostic techniques, pericarditis is most commonly idiopathic, and radiation therapy, cardiac surgery, and percutaneous procedures have becom...

Acute pericarditis has many potential etiologies and typically presents as a sharp central chest pain that worsens with recumbency and is relieved by leaning forward. The pathognomonic physical finding of acute pericarditis is the pericardial friction rub, which is usually auscultated along the lower left sternal border. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a useful, simple tool that may aid in the d...

INTRODUCTION Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon disease characterized by impaired diastolic filling of the ventricles, encased in a fibrotic pericardium resulting from an inflammatory process. Rheumatoid arthritis is a rare cause of constrictive pericarditis, usually due to a concomitant acute or chronic serositis. PRESENTATION OF CASE This paper presents a unique case of recurrent cons...

A study has been made of 62 patients with constrictive pericarditis. There was considerable variation from the classical description of the disease. It is hoped that the findings may be of use, because both diagnosis and treatment can sometimes cause perplexity. The atiology and mode of onset of constrictive pericarditis will be considered first, since ,these have important effects on the final...

The differential diagnosis of the association of pneumonia and haemorrhagic pericarditis should include viral aetiologies Sir, For the sake of completeness, the differential diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia with haemorrhagic pericarditis 1 should include Chlamydia infection in immunocompetent subjects, 2 and the association of pneumonia and staphylococcal pericarditis. 3 Where a bacterial patho...

To the Editor: We read with great interest the publication by Lilly in a recent issue of Circulation. 1 Lilly has provided a brief yet comprehensive review of the management of acute and recurrent pericarditis. Lilly has recommended that corticosteroids should never be used as a primary line of therapy in acute or recurrent idiopathic pericarditis, unless the disease symptoms are refractory to ...

INTRODUCTION Chylothorax and chylous ascites are uncommon and usually associated with trauma or neoplasms. To the best of our knowledge, constrictive pericarditis leading to chylothorax and chylous ascites in a person infected with HIV has never previously been described. CASE PRESENTATION A 39-year-old Thai man was referred to our institute with progressive dyspnea, edema and abdominal diste...