During the past four years 13 patients with acute pericarditis have been studied at this hospital. Case reports concerning 7 of these patients illustrating the main features of this disorder were ...

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 effusion ...

The management of pericardial diseases is largely empirical because of the relative lack of randomized trials that involve patients with these conditions. A first attempt to bring together and ...