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 ...

Echocardiography enables noninvasive detection ... inflammation and there is no logical reason to exclude concomitant pericarditis in these cases as part of an inflammatory myopericardial syndrome ...

The FDA has called for Pfizer and Moderna to update the safety information on their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to include warnings on the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis, according to two ...

A genome-wide association study in Sweden identified rare genetic variants near the SCAF11 and LRRC4C genes that may be linked to heart inflammation following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination. The findings ...

Diagnosis is clinical, based on hypotension with a large pericardial effusion; however, echocardiography can ... Normally, the pericardium can expand as the heart fills; however, with cardiac ...