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Pocket Guidelines on Myocarditis and Pericarditis

ESC Pocket Guidelines

Cardio-Oncology
Imaging
Invasive Imaging and Functional Assessment
Pericardial Disease
Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

Publication Date: 2025

Chairperson: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Massimo Imazio

 

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction  
  • Epidemiology, classification, stages, diagnostic criteria and aetiology
    • Classification and stages
    • Diagnostic criteria
      • Diagnostic criteria for myocarditis
      • Diagnostic criteria for pericarditis
  • Clinical presentation of IMPS
    • Clinical presentations of myocarditis
      • Chest pain presentation
      • Heart failure presentation
      • Presentation with arrhythmias
    • Clinical presentations of pericarditis
      • Pericarditis with cardiac tamponade
      • Constrictive pericarditis
  • Diagnosis and diagnostic work-up
    • Genetics
    • Echocardiography
    • Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
    • Computed tomography
    • Nuclear medicine
    • Endomyocardial biopsy
    • Role of autopsy
    • Role of cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography
    • Electro-anatomical mapping
  • Therapy
    • Pharmacological therapy
      • Pharmacological therapy for myocarditis
      • Pharmacological therapy for pericarditis
  • Interventional techniques including circulatory support
      • Myocarditis
      • Pericarditis
    • Surgical therapy
    • Management of arrhythmias and prevention of SCD in myocarditis
  • Prognosis
    • Complications and outcomes for myocarditis
    • Complications and outcomes for pericarditis
  • Specific types of myocarditis
    • Giant-cell myocarditis
    • Myocarditis in sarcoidosis
    • Drug- or vaccine-induced myocarditis
  • Inflammatory cardiomyopathy
  • Specific types of pericarditis
    • Tuberculous pericarditis
    • Pericardial involvement in neoplastic disease
    • Post-cardiac injury syndrome
    • Purulent pericarditis
    • Inflammatory and non-inflammatory pericardial effusion
    • Cardiac tamponade
    • Pericardial constriction and constrictive pericarditis (calcified and non-calcified)
  • Age- and sex-related aspects in IMPS
    • Pregnancy, lactation, and reproductive issues
    • Physical activity in inflammatory myopericardial syndrome
    • Multidisciplinary teams for the management of IMPS

 

References

Abridged version on Pericardial Diseases