Pericarditis

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Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium surrounding the heart.[1][2][3][4]

Signs and symptoms

Published case series provide estimated of the sensitivity of clinical findings:[5][6][7]

  • The pain is usually pleuritic (it hurts when one breathes in or coughs).[3]
  • The pain is worse with laying down and is better with leaning forward.[3]
  • The pain may radiate to one or both trapezius ridges.[3]
  • 85 percent of patients have a friction rub.
  1. ↑ National Library of Medicine. Pericarditis. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
  2. ↑ Lange RA, Hillis LD (2004). "Clinical practice. Acute pericarditis". N. Engl. J. Med. 351 (21): 2195–202. DOI:10.1056/NEJMcp041997. PMID 15548780. Research Blogging.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Spodick DH (2003). "Acute pericarditis: current concepts and practice". JAMA 289 (9): 1150–3. PMID 12622586. [e]
  4. ↑ Troughton RW, Asher CR, Klein AL (2004). "Pericarditis". Lancet 363 (9410): 717–27. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15648-1. PMID 15001332. Research Blogging.
  5. ↑ Zayas R, Anguita M, Torres F, et al (1995). "Incidence of specific etiology and role of methods for specific etiologic diagnosis of primary acute pericarditis". Am. J. Cardiol. 75 (5): 378–82. PMID 7856532. [e]
  6. ↑ Imazio M, Demichelis B, Parrini I, et al (2004). "Day-hospital treatment of acute pericarditis: a management program for outpatient therapy". J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 43 (6): 1042–6. DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2003.09.055. PMID 15028364. Research Blogging.
  7. ↑ Permanyer-Miralda G, Sagristá-Sauleda J, Soler-Soler J (1985). "Primary acute pericardial disease: a prospective series of 231 consecutive patients". Am. J. Cardiol. 56 (10): 623–30. PMID 4050698. [e]
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