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    can include cardiac tamponade, myocarditis, and constrictive pericarditis. Pericarditis is an uncommon cause of chest pain. About 3 per 10,000 people...
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    pericarditis is a form of pericarditis. It causes fibrinous pericarditis. The main cause of the disease is poorly understood. Fibrinous pericarditis is...
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    Acute pericarditis is a type of pericarditis (inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart, the pericardium) usually lasting less than 6 weeks.[citation...
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    conditions are bacterial pericarditis, pericarditis and pericarditis after a heart attack. The cause of constrictive pericarditis in the developing world...
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  • Dressler syndrome is a secondary form of pericarditis that occurs in the setting of injury to the heart or the pericardium (the outer lining of the heart)...
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  • Tuberculous pericarditis is a form of pericarditis. It is a condition in which the pericardium surrounding the heart is infected by the bacterial species...
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    the heart. In contrast to other causes of pericarditis which may have a viral etiology, purulent pericarditis refers specifically to bacterial or fungal...
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    depression is highly suggestive of pericarditis. R wave in most cases will be unaltered. In two weeks after pericarditis, there will be upward concave ST...
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    suffering with pericarditis, a pericardial friction rub can often be heard when listening to the heart with a stethoscope. Pericarditis is often caused...
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    pericardial pathology (pericardial thickening, constrictive pericarditis, malignancy-associated pericarditis). Whereas cardiac MRI is reserved for patients with...
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