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Supports etiologic evaluation in pericarditis; leaves open evidence-based diagnostic algorithms for prospective validation.
THE increasing number of papers on diseases of the pericardium attests to the growing interest in this subject. Pericarditis occurs in a wide variety of infections of bacterial, viral, rickettsial and protozoal origin, a fact that must be recognized when one is planning the therapy of pericarditis or the management of the general infection of which the pericarditis is but one manifestation. Tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis or histoplasmosis, for example, may be uncovered by the etiologic investigation of pericarditis. Pericarditis, with or without other serous-membrane involvement, may implicate a long list of underlying diseases: rheumatic fever; rheumatoid arthritis; systemic lupus erythematosus or . . .
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