0 inflammation of the pericardium (= the membrane that surrounds the heart) --
Colchicine is also used as adjunct to conventional therapy in the treatment of pericarditis.
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) can also cause pericarditis, but the presenting symptoms often differ enough to warrant diagnosis.
The maternity patients also had lymphangitis, peritonitis, pericarditis, pleurisy, and meningitis, and metastases also formed in many of them.
In his description of the deceased's heart, equally brief, the pathologist states that apart from early purulent pericarditis, the organ was normal.
His effrontery, however, quailed before a disease so earnest and energetic as pericarditis, and he requested that some regular physician should be called in to treat the malady.
Hydropneumopericardium is a very rare condition which may occur after trauma, pericarditis caused by gas-forming organisms, fistulas, or medical procedures such as positive pressure ventilation or endoscopy.
Pericarditis is an inflammation of the lining of the heart. 16.
There was no sign of pericarditis (in the two cases examined), nor were specific myocardial infiltrations found.
