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Pericarditis Cause - Articles
Pericarditis - Causes and Treatments
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Jan
Posted
Sat 11 Sep 2010 12:00am
Pericarditis is a swelling and irritation of the pericardium, which is a thin sac-like membrane surrounding the heart. Pericarditis may be acute or chronic. Common symptoms of this condition include a sharp stabbing chest pain which intensifies on lying down; breathlessness while reclining; low grade fever; an overall sense of weakness, fatigu ...
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Pericarditis Information
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Jan
Posted
Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:55pm
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium (the fibrous sac surrounding the heart). Pericarditis often causes chest pain and sometimes other symptoms. Pericarditis may be acute or chronic. The sharp chest pain associated with acute pericarditis occurs when the pericardium rubs against the heart's outer layer.
Pericarditis can be ca ...
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Pericarditis Information
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Jan
Posted
Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:57pm
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium (the fibrous sac surrounding the heart). Pericarditis often causes chest pain and sometimes other symptoms. Pericarditis may be acute or chronic. The sharp chest pain associated with acute pericarditis occurs when the pericardium rubs against the heart's outer layer.
Pericarditis can be cause ...
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Pericarditis can be localised and so do the ST elevation
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Fri 25 Dec 2009 8:05am
The commonest cause of ST elevation is STEMI .
The non infarct causes of ST elevation include
Pericarditis
Early repolarisation syndrome
Hyperkalemia
Brugada syndrome
CNS injury
What is the mechanism of ST eelvation in pericarditis ?
The mechanism of ST elevation in STEMI is injury current coming tow ...
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An unusual form of constrictive pericarditis : Annular constriction
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Thu 22 Apr 2010 7:24am
Constrictive pericarditis(CP) has been a fascinating disease for the cardiologists for many decades . (Of course , not so fascinating for our patients!) The reason why clinicians were thrilled to diagnose this entity is due to the unique clinical and echocardiographic and hemodynamic features. Further , it is one of the few curable fo ...
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Some thoughts about uremic pericarditis
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
Posted
Fri 13 Aug 2010 11:23am
Pericardium is a fine biological sensor. It makes noise when the kidney is in distress .
We call this as uremic pericardial rub . This is not a universal phenomenon in renal failure.
Occurs in about 10% of renal failure .
Mechanism
Chemical pericarditis . Uremic middle molecules ?
Dialysis related pericarditis
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Uremic Pericarditis
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Matt S.
Posted
Wed 04 Jun 2008 12:00am
We are all familiar with "uremic pericarditis" as one of the standard indications for initiating dialysis, and the number of physical exams with a negative cardiac rub I have documented this year is truly impressive.
Which is why, earlier in the year, I was quite surprised when I auscultated a pericarditis rub a few months on a patient who ...
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How to miss pericarditis in coronary care unit : Be casual
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
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Fri 18 Mar 2011 1:49pm
For a police officer who visit a crime site every one looks as a culprit. For a cardiologist sitting in coronary care unit all chest pain will have to look like an infarct ! Then only he is a cardiologist !
A rare but costly mistake occasionally happens . When a patient with severe chest pain localized to retro sternum with ST ...
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How can Troponin get elevated in Pericarditis ?
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Dr. Sangareddi V.
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Sat 19 Mar 2011 12:20pm
Heart has three layers
Epicardium
Myocardium
Endocardium
Epicardium is same as visceral pericardium . If pericardial inflammation dissusely occurs , it is bound to injure the epicardium and subepicardium .
Does the troponins located deep inside the myocardium ?
No .It can even be present just few microns b ...
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