Patients were diagnosed with acute pericarditis (two or more the following: pericarditic chest pain, diffuse ST-segment elevations or PR depressions, new/worsening pericardial effusion ...

Viral pericarditis or myocarditis are associated ... A surgical approach using a “pericardial window” is performed when there is concern that the pericardial fluid will accumulate, such ...

Myopericarditis is a primarily pericardial inflammatory syndrome occurring when clinical diagnostic criteria for pericarditis are satisfied and concurrent mild myocardial involvement is documented ...

which occurs when excess fluid buildup within the pericardium, called pericardial effusion, squeezes the heart muscle, ...

Normally, the pericardium can expand as the heart ... done percutaneously through a subxiphoid approach. A surgical pericardial window can be done to create communication between the pericardial ...