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Perioperative and Surgical Management of Constrictive Pericarditis. [PDF]

open access: yesMethodist Debakey Cardiovasc J
El Harake L   +3 more
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Pericarditis

The Lancet, 2004
Pericarditis is a common disorder that has multiple causes and presents in various primary-care and secondary-care settings. New diagnostic techniques have improved the sampling and analysis of pericardial fluid and allow comprehensive characterisation of cause.
Richard W, Troughton   +2 more
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Pericarditis

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1988
Pericarditis is a common but frequently subclinical entity. There are a number of causes, including infection, systemic illness, cardiac disease, trauma, and neoplasm. Iatrogenic causes include surgery, cardiac instrumentation, irradiation, and medications. The clinical presentation varies, depending on the cause.
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Acute pericarditis

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 1999
Most patients with severe acute pericarditis should be hospitalized for complete diagnosis and observation for complications, particularly effusion and tamponade. Therapy should be directed at a specific inciting etiologic agent, if identified. In all patients, anti-inflammatory and symptomatic treatment should aim at alleviating pain, fever, and ...
, Mewar   +3 more
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Pericarditis

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2005
Pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) may be caused by infectious agents, autoimmune disorders, metabolic conditions, or malignancy, or it may be a complication of drug therapy, trauma, cardiac surgery, or smallpox vaccination. Diagnosis, based on clinical findings, electrocardiographic changes, chest radiograph, and ultrasound, may be ...
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Amebic Pericarditis

Chest, 1975
Amebic pericarditis in a 40-year-old man who presented with insidious onset of symptoms is reported. Pericarditis is an infrequent complication of liver abscess and accounts for 4 percent of all extraintestinal amebiasis. Communication between the left lobe of liver and pericardium has been demonstrated in this patient.
T K, Ganesan, S, Kandaswamy
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