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Clinical evaluation should guide the aetiology search for pericardial diseases to exclude specific causes before diagnosing idiopathic pericardial effusion.
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We thank the authors of the letter for their interest in the topic. As mentioned in the original paper, patients with ‘idiopathic pericardial effusions’ are labelled in this way only after exclusion of any specific aetiology according to clinical judgement.1 The aetiology of pericardial diseases is varied, and the risk is to have a very long list of causes, …
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Imazio et al. (2019) studied this question. Clinical evaluation should guide the aetiology search for pericardial diseases to exclude specific causes before diagnosing idiopathic pericardial effusion.
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