Pericarditis

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• Causes

  • Coxsackie virus
  • Bacterial pericarditis
  • Haemophilus influenzae
  • Uraemia
  • Dressler syndrome
  • Collagen vascular disease
  • Thoracic trauma
  • Malignant infiltration of pericardium
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Rheumatic fever
  • Miliary tuberculosis
  • Cryoglobulinaemia
  • Wegeners granulomatosis
  • Behcet disease
  • Mediastinitis
  • Serositis

• Effects

  • Pericardial effusion
  • Pleuritic chest pain
  • Saddle-shaped ST segment
  • Pericardial rub
  • Pleural rub
  • Raised troponin

• Parents

  • Pericardial disease

• Children

  • Chronic constrictive pericarditis