A patient with Poland syndrome presents with acute pericarditis, underscoring diagnostic hurdles in chest pain due to ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion on the new American Heart Association’s pericarditis initiative with Jimmy Kerrigan, MD. For the estimated 40,000 adults with recurrent pericarditis in the United ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — A UVA Health cardiologist was recently featured alongside NHL Hall-of-Famer Henrik Lundqvist in a national campaign to raise awareness about a rare heart condition. UVA ...

Avoid strenuous activity if you have active inflammation from pericarditis. After the inflammation lowers, your doctor can recommend exercises that are safe to do. Pericarditis is a rare disease that ...

About 40,000 people in the United States experience recurrent pericarditis, or inflammation of the sac-like structure that protects the heart, which can cause chest pain and may lead to fluid buildup ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with lupus, those taking prednisone or demonstrating active disease and a more recent initial ...

Chest pain can be triggered by many different conditions and situations, and not all chest pain is equal. Here's what you ...

A new study of more than 2,900 patients provides evidence that it's likely best to use as little corticosteroid medicine as possible when treating people who have lupus pericarditis, a common heart ...

Pericarditis is an immune condition, not, strictly speaking, a cardiologic condition. Wax had been physically active ...