This review provides a clinical approach to the diagnosis, investigation, and management of patients presenting with suspected pericardial disease.
Diseases of the pericardium commonly manifest in one of three ways: acute pericarditis, pericardial effusion and constrictive pericarditis. In the developed world, the most common cause of acute pericarditis is viral or idiopathic disease, while in the developing world tuberculous aetiology, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, is commonplace owing to the high prevalence of HIV. This article provides an approach to the diagnosis, investigation and management of these patients.
Kyriakakis et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Pericardial disease. This review provides a clinical approach to the diagnosis, investigation, and management of patients presenting with suspected pericardial disease.