What is chronic pericarditis? Chronic pericarditis is an inflammation (swelling) of the pericardium lasting for more than three months. The pericardium is a sac that surrounds your heart and its large ...

Pericarditis is a challenging illness that's often mistaken for a heart attack or other organ disease. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Leslie Cooper Jr., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, explains what ...

Pericardial disease are conditions that affect your pericardium. Your pericardium is a flexible, two-layered sac that surrounds your heart. Your pericardium contains your heart in your chest wall. It ...

Q: What is a pericardium? A: Pericardium is a double layer sac that covers the heart. The pericardium is a protective covering for the heart. A: When the pericardium is inflamed, it results in a ...

Inflammation of the pericardium, which is a sac-like membrane, is called pericarditis. Pericarditis can be caused due to various medical conditions including viral infection, a pyogenic (pus-producing ...

In the past five years 10 cases have been reported in which hypoalbuminemia due to excessive protein loss from the gut has been associated with constrictive pericarditis. 5–11 Recently, we observed ...

Lack of response to aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) after at least 1 week of therapy. The widespread ST-segment elevation. that is normally attributed to acute pericarditis is ...

Country music singer and songwriter Carly Pearce has shared details about an ongoing health condition. The 34-year-old said she will continue performing, although those performances might look a bit ...

The human heart has a sac-like structure that surrounds it, which is called the pericardium. The major purpose of this sac is to protect the heart; additionally, the pericardium contains a fluid that ...

H.W.L., a 33-year-old man, was found to have an elevated blood pressure at 20 years of age and was treated sporadically with reserpine until June, 1966, when he was referred with the . . . We are ...

Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be curative for various hematological disorders, it continues to be associated with a significant incidence of treatment-related ...