A 54 year old male with no significant past medical history presents to his primary care physician with 2 days of chest pains including now. His vital signs and physical examination are normal. His ...

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 ...

Since acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis is a common cause of transient CP, ST elevation and PR segment depression in all derivations except a VR and V 1, and diffuse T wave negativity may be ...

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 ...

What would you expect his ECG to look like in 3 days from now? His ECG may be normal or show diffuse T wave inversions and no other evidence of pericarditis. The ECG changes of pericarditis progress ...

Pericardial disease are conditions that affect your pericardium. Your pericardium is a flexible, two-layered sac that surrounds your heart. Your pericardium contains your heart in your chest wall. It ...

Surgeons are frequently impatient, “never letting the skin get in the way of the problem.” One of my colleagues repeatedly asks God, "Please give me patience right away.” That seems to be the case for ...

Myocarditis and pericarditis are types of heart inflammation. Myocarditis affects the middle layer of heart muscle, and pericarditis only affects the heart’s outer lining. Myocarditis and pericarditis ...

Recurrent pericarditis occurred in one fifth of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with higher recurrence rates observed in younger patients and those receiving oral prednisone therapy.

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 ...