A patient develops pericarditis 19 days after testing positive test for COVID-19. The authors describe how to recognize, diagnose, and treat this condition. This is the fourth installment of our ...

COVID-19 can trigger pericarditis, a type of heart inflammation, but this is quite rare. Symptoms include chest pain that comes on quickly or worsens when you breathe deeply or lie down. Pericarditis ...

Pericarditis is swelling of the pericardium, the sack-like membrane that contains the heart. Pericarditis can cause sharp pain in the chest. In most cases, pericarditis will pass without treatment. In ...

Myocarditis and pericarditis are conditions that involve heart inflammation. Myocarditis affects the heart muscle itself, while pericarditis impacts the pericardium — the layer of tissue that ...

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 ...

Acute pericarditis is inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart that develops suddenly and causes sharp chest pain. The cause is usually a viral or bacterial infection. The condition is ...

Myocarditis and pericarditis are types of heart inflammation. Myocarditis affects the middle layer of heart muscle, and pericarditis only affects the heart’s outer lining. Myocarditis and pericarditis ...

The most common symptom of pericarditis is chest pain, and this is something with which most patients present themselves at a clinic. Diagnosis and confirmation of pericarditis happens in a series of ...

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Country music star Carly Pearce is looking to raise awareness by sharing the two main symptoms she experienced before she was diagnosed with pericarditis, inflammation in her heart. Pearce, 34, first ...