ERICARDITIS is commonly classified as acute or chronic. Pericarditis with effusion is regarded as a form of acute pericarditis and not as a form of chronic pericarditis." 2 This is undoubtedly correct in nearly all instances. There are, however, occasional exceptions in which pericarditis with effusion follows a chronic course of many months, notable for the complete absence of the features of ...

ERICARDITIS is commonly classified as acute or chronic. Pericarditis with effusion is regarded as a form of acute pericarditis and not as a form of chronic pericarditis." 2 This is undoubtedly correct in nearly all instances. There are, however, occasional exceptions in which pericarditis with effusion follows a chronic course of many months, notable for the complete absence of the features of ...

Myocarditis was reported after smallpox vaccination in Europe and Australia, but no association had been reported with the US vaccine. We conducted surveillance to describe and determine the frequency of myocarditis and/or pericarditis (myo/pericarditis) among civilians vaccinated during the US smallpox vaccination program between January and October 2003. We developed surveillance case definit...

Postinfarction pericarditis can be classified as "early," referred to as pericarditis epistenocardica, or "delayed," referred to as Dressler syndrome. The incidence of postinfarction pericarditis has decreased to <5% since the introduction of reperfusion therapies and limitation of infarct size. We report on a 57-year-old man who suffered sudden cardiac death as a result of acute myocardial inf...

The present study was designed to determine the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and inflammation in a goat sterile pericarditis model and to assess the effect of atorvastatin, a cholesterol‑reducing drug, on AF. A total of 15 adult male goats were randomly divided into control, untreated pericarditis and atorvastatin‑treated pericarditis groups. Pericarditis was induced via thoraco...

BACKGROUND In areas where Mycobacterium tuberculosis is endemic, tuberculosis is known to be the most common cause of pericarditis. However, the difficulty in diagnosis may lead to late complications such as constrictive pericarditis and increased mortality. Therefore, identification of patients at a high risk for poor prognosis, and prompt initiation of treatment are important in the outcome o...

OBJECTIVE To identify features which predict the subsequent development of constrictive pericarditis from acute or subacute tuberculous (TB) pericarditis. SETTING Tertiary referral centre, chest hospital. PATIENTS The records of 16 consecutive patients in whom acute or subacute TB pericarditis was diagnosed between 1988 and 1990 at a chest hospital were reviewed. These records included a fo...

Tuberculous (TB) pericarditis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is found in approximately 1% of all autopsied cases of TB and in 1-2% of pulmonary TB [1]. Although there has been a significant decline in TB in developed countries over last decades, Asia, Africa and Latin America, with 86% of the World’s population are home to 95% of all cases of active TB and 98% of the nearly 2 million de...

This is a study and translation of the section on pericarditis in Al Taisir book written by the Muslim physician Ibn Zuhr Avenzoar who lived and practiced in Eshbeelia nowadays Seville, Andalusia, Spain between 1091-1162 AD. Ibn Zuhr described the serous type of pericarditis as well as the pathological findings in fibrinous pericarditis. His description of the latter may also fit with the pictu...