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    can include cardiac tamponade, myocarditis, and constrictive pericarditis. Pericarditis is an uncommon cause of chest pain. About 3 per 10,000 people...
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    pericarditis is a form of pericarditis. It causes fibrinous pericarditis. The main cause of the disease is poorly understood. Fibrinous pericarditis is...
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    Acute pericarditis is a type of pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart, the pericardium) usually lasting less than 6 weeks.[citation...
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    conditions are bacterial pericarditis, pericarditis and pericarditis after a heart attack. The cause of constrictive pericarditis in the developing world...
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    the heart. In contrast to other causes of pericarditis which may have a viral etiology, purulent pericarditis refers specifically to bacterial or fungal...
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  • Tuberculous pericarditis is a form of pericarditis. It is a condition in which the pericardium surrounding the heart is infected by the bacterial species...
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  • Dressler syndrome is a secondary form of pericarditis that occurs in the setting of injury to the heart or the pericardium (the outer lining of the heart)...
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    depression is highly suggestive of pericarditis. R wave in most cases will be unaltered. In two weeks after pericarditis, there will be upward concave ST...
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    suffering with pericarditis, a pericardial friction rub can often be heard when listening to the heart with a stethoscope. Pericarditis is often caused...
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    pericardial pathology (pericardial thickening, constrictive pericarditis, malignancy-associated pericarditis). Whereas cardiac MRI is reserved for patients with...
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  • pericardial rub, is an audible medical sign used in the diagnosis of pericarditis. Upon auscultation, this sign is an extra heart sound of to-and-fro character...
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  • The differential diagnoses of Kussmaul's sign includes constrictive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, pericardial effusion, and severe right-sided...
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    [citation needed] PR segment depression may indicate atrial injury or pericarditis. P wave Clinical cardiac electrophysiology in clinical practice. Huang...
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    associated with pericarditis, and many people with myocarditis present with signs and symptoms that suggest myocarditis and pericarditis at the same time...
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    The differential diagnosis of Kussmaul's sign includes constrictive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, pericardial effusion, and severe right-sided...
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    a serofibrinous pericardial exudate described as "bread-and-butter" pericarditis, which usually resolves without sequelae. Involvement of the endocardium...
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    gliding. Other conditions that can produce similar symptoms include pericarditis, heart attack, cholecystitis, pulmonary embolism, and pneumothorax. Diagnostic...
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  • Myopericarditis is a combination of both myocarditis and pericarditis appearing in a single individual, namely inflammation of both the pericardium and...
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    Other conditions that may produce similar symptoms include angina, pericarditis, pleurisy, and chest trauma. Treatment is usually via reassurance, as...
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  • severe aortic valve stenosis, and disorders of the aorta. Constrictive pericarditis is a rare cause. Masses can grow to press on major blood vessels causing...
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    tamponade due to its speed. Pericardiocentesis can relieve the symptoms of pericarditis. There may be a normal amount of pericardial fluid, but inflammation...
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    Respiratory arrest Myocardial infarction Heart failure Arrhythmia Myocarditis Pericarditis Pulmonary embolism Heart enlargement Lung cancer Pneumonia Acute respiratory...
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    in 1958, who called it Bacteroides corrodens. E. corrodens is a rare pericarditis associated pathogen. It is a fastidious, slow growing, human commensal...
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  • exaggerated drop in diastolic central venous pressure seen in constrictive pericarditis (particularly with a stiff calcified pericardium) and manifested as abrupt...
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    include cancer, kidney failure, chest trauma, myocardial infarction, and pericarditis. Other causes include connective tissues diseases, hypothyroidism, aortic...
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    release Dylan was hospitalized with a life-threatening heart infection, pericarditis, brought on by histoplasmosis. His scheduled European tour was canceled...
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  • indication of a variety of illnesses, including costochondritis and viral pericarditis. Precordial thump Precordial examination Commotio cordis Hyperdynamic...
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    attack, heart failure, and inflammation of the sac around the heart (pericarditis).[citation needed] Gastrointestinal system: Damage to mesenteric arteries...
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    is usually studied and treated by specifying it as:[citation needed] Pericarditis is the inflammation of the pericardium Myocarditis is the inflammation...
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  • Cardiac: constrictive pericarditis. One study found that pulsus paradoxus occurs in less than 20% of patients with constrictive pericarditis. pericardial effusion...
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