Population
144 patients dying with disturbances of cardiac rhythm or conduction, including 38 with pericarditis.
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May link pericarditis to atrial arrhythmias via sinus node involvement; hypothesis-generating, needs prospective validation before guiding practice.
Pericarditis frequently involves the sinus node histologically, which may explain the high incidence of atrial arrhythmias in these patients.
Thomas N. James (1962) studied this question.
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