Acute pericarditis is sudden inflammation of the heart's lining, often due to infection. Read on to learn about its symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment.

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The clinical diagnosis of acute pericarditis is based on simple criteria: typical chest pain, pericardial friction rub (Figure 2), widespread ST-segment elevation (Figure 3) and pericardial ...

When this layer becomes inflamed, it is called pericarditis. When pericarditis comes back after you don’t have symptoms for at least 4 weeks, it is called recurrent pericarditis. Symptoms of ...

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Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon form of heart failure in which the pericardium — the sac of tissue surrounding the heart — becomes stiff and prevents the heart from filling and ...

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Related: Chest Pain: When Symptoms Are and Aren’t Heart-Related Pericarditis, which is the inflammation of the sac that lines the heart, is another potentially serious cause of chest pain. Typically, ...

In the cited meta-analysis, colchicine was associated with reduced risk of treatment failure (OR: 0.23) and recurrent pericarditis (OR: 0.39), but with a trend toward more adverse effects.