Presentations of pericardial disease

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  • isolated phenomenon

  • often a complication of a variety of systemic disorders, trauma, drugs

  • can be clinically silent

  • cause of pericardial disease is often never identified


pericardial disease presents in four ways

  • acute fibrinous pericarditis—dry

  • pericardial effusion without cardiac compression

  • cardiac tamponade, which is pericardial effusion with compression

  • constrictive pericarditis

Category: Pathology Notes

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