Publication Date: 2005
Chairperson:Bernhard Maisch
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acute pericarditis
- Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade
- Indications for pericardiocentesis
- How to perform pericardiocentesis
- Analyses of pericardial effusion
- Constrictive pericarditis
- Viral pericarditis
- Bacterial pericarditis
- Pericarditis in renal failure
- Autoreactive pericarditis and pericardial involvement in systemic autoimmune diseases
- The post-cardiac injury syndrome:
- postpericardiotomy syndrome
- Post-infarction pericarditis (pericarditis epistenocardicaand Dressler’s syndrome)
- Traumatic pericardial effusion
- Haemopericardium in aortic dissection
- Neoplastic pericarditis
