Acute inflammatory myopericardial syndromes span a range from pure pericarditis to pure myocarditis, with the terms myopericarditis and perimyocarditis used to reflect the dominant component of ...

Pericarditis may be caused by infectious or noninfectious noxa. Most cases are labeled as 'idiopathic' because the traditional diagnostic approach often fails to identify the etiology. Most important ...

An electrocardiogram and echocardiogram (echo) are both noninvasive imaging tests that look at the functioning of your heart and can help identify heart disease. An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) and ...

A 44-year-old otherwise healthy man presents to an emergency department in Baltimore, noting that for the past 24 hours he has had a sharp pain in his chest that worsens when he breathes deeply. He ...

An 11-year-old boy with splenectomized homozygous beta-thalassemia (Pesaro class 2) underwent HLA-matched unrelated donor BMT. Pre-transplant electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocardiogram showed no ...

A 28-year-old man who is new to your list, and whose records have not yet arrived, presents in your emergency surgery with a two-day history of substernal chest pain. He describes this as sharp and ...

Common causes of constrictive pericarditis include prior heart surgery, a history of radiation therapy, infections such as tuberculosis, chest injury, and other possible factors. Constrictive ...

COVID-19 can trigger pericarditis, a type of heart inflammation, but this is quite rare. Symptoms include chest pain that comes on quickly or worsens when you breathe deeply or lie down. Pericarditis ...

Pericarditis is an inflammation and swelling of the thin, saclike tissue (called the pericardium) that protects the heart. In addition to chest pain, symptoms of pericarditis include fever, weakness, ...