• DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2014-306362
Corpus ID: 35310104

Diagnosis and treatment of pericarditis

@article{Imazio2015DiagnosisAT,
  title={Diagnosis and treatment of pericarditis},
  author={M. Imazio and F. Gaita},
  journal={Heart},
  year={2015},
  volume={101},
  pages={1159 - 1168}
}

M. Imazio, F. Gaita

Published 2015

Medicine

Heart

### Learning objectives 1. Review the definitions, classification and aetiology of pericarditis. 2. Describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria and work-up, laboratory and imaging findings of pericarditis. 3. Review and describe the contemporary medical, interventional and surgical therapies, the prevention and prognosis of pericarditis. ### Classification and definition Pericarditis is an inflammatory disease of the pericardium, which may have infectious or non-infectious… CONTINUE READING

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