reported in approximately 30% of patients with acute pericarditis and more than 50% of those with a recurrence. The risk of cardiac tamponade is relatively low (<5%) for idiopathic/viral cases and ...

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is caused by reduction in the elasticity of the pericardium resulting in impaired diastolic filling of the heart. All types of CP were thought to be irreversible in ...

Other patients who have had persistent chest pain and palpitations after acute viral illness may need to consider that, in ...