This study and the accompanying editorial present important information that helps us compare and contrast acute pericarditis with AMI. Salisbury and colleagues attempted to determine the frequency of ...

In addition, several drugs have been reported occasionally to produce pericarditis 4–12 when administered to man. The mechanism by which they induce the lesion appears to be one of hypersensitivity ...

Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be curative for various hematological disorders, it continues to be associated with a significant incidence of treatment-related ...

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 ...

RECENT reports have indicated that the Coxsackie viruses may well be etiologic agents in certain cases of acute benign pericarditis. During the months of June to November, 1958, there was an outbreak ...

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Although colchicine has been shown to be beneficial in patients with recurrent pericarditis, which is thought to have a large inflammatory component related to an immune response, until now its ...

A patient develops pericarditis 19 days after testing positive test for COVID-19. The authors describe how to recognize, diagnose, and treat this condition. This is the fourth installment of our ...

The findings of a small preliminary study have suggested that colchicine could prove valuable as first-line therapy for new-onset acute pericarditis as an adjunct to conventional treatments. The ...

Country music singer and songwriter Carly Pearce has shared details about an ongoing health condition. The 34-year-old said she will continue performing, although those performances might look a bit ...

ESC: Colchicine Effective for Acute Pericarditis Colchicine is more effective than placebo in reducing the risk of incessant or recurrent pericarditis in patients with acute pericarditis. (HealthDay ...

In acute pericarditis, the ECG typically shows a pattern of PR segment depression, concave ST-segment elevation, and T-wave inversion. 4 Myocarditis alone usually presents with nonspecific ST-segment ...