Purulent Pericarditis Identified with Point-of-Care Echocardiography: A Case Report [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency MedicineIntroduction: Purulent pericarditis is a rare subset of pericarditis that can result in serious morbidity and mortality. Presenting symptoms are often nonspecific, and a high index of suspicion must be maintained to reach an early diagnosis.
Daniel Baquet +5 more
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Genetic Evidence for a Putative B Cell–Cholate Immunometabolic Axis in Pericarditis: A Mendelian Randomization Study [PDF]
BiomedicinesBackground: Pericarditis is an inflammatory heart disease with unclear causal mechanisms. Immune dysregulation is implicated, but observational studies cannot reliably infer causality.
Yifei Zhang, Wuxiao Yang, Xuewen Li
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A successfully treated case of primary purulent pericarditis complicated by cardiac tamponade and pneumopericardium [PDF]
Acute and Critical Care, 2021 Acute pericarditis is caused by various factors, but purulent pericarditis is rare. Primary purulent pericarditis in immunocompetent hosts is very rare in the modern antibiotics era.
Jong Wook Beom +8 more
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Penggunaan Kortikosteroid pada Pasien Anak dengan Perikarditis Tuberkulosis.
Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Indonesia, 2021 Tuberculous pericarditis (TB pericarditis) is a disease that still frequently occurs in developing countries. The mortality rate due to TB pericarditis is still quite high, reaching 17-40%.
Novi Violona Edwar +2 more
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Constrictive pericarditis caused by viral myocarditis in children: a brief report
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022 Background Constrictive pericarditis is more common in adults and has a low incidence in children. Here is a case of coxsackie virus induced myocarditis in children, resulting in constrictive pericarditis.
Haiyan Lei +3 more
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Armored heart as an image of constrictive pericarditis - a review of the literature
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023 Introduction: Pericarditis is diagnosed among 5% patients hospitalized due to chest pain. It is included in pericardial syndromes together with constrictive pericarditis, pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade.
Wojciech Wokurka +9 more
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Acute recurrent pericarditis in thyrotoxicosis
IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2020 The etiology of acute pericarditis is often thought to be autoimmune, and Graves’ disease has been reported in a few series to manifest as acute pericarditis.
Parvaiz Ahmad Zargar +2 more
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Proton beam therapy causing pericarditis – a rare case of radiation induced cardiotoxicity
Cardio-Oncology, 2022 Acute pericarditis is caused by the inflammation of the pericardium which can result in an effusion around the heart. Proton beam therapy causing radiation-induced pericarditis is not a well-known cause of pericarditis.
Rahul Gupta +4 more
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Predictive factors of recurrence after pediatric acute pericarditis
Jornal de Pediatria, 2021 Objective: The predisposing factors for pericarditis recurrence in the pediatric population have not yet been established. This study aimed to define the risk factors for the unfavorable prognosis of pediatric acute pericarditis.
Stasa Krasic +9 more
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Innate Lymphoid Cells Play a Pathogenic Role in Pericarditis
Cell Reports, 2020 Summary: We find that cardiac group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) are essential for the development of IL-33-induced eosinophilic pericarditis. We show a pathogenic role for ILC2s in cardiac inflammation, in which ILC2s activated by IL-33 drive the ...
Hee Sun Choi +12 more
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