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Pericarditis is the most common acute presentation of radiation-induced heart disease. The incidence of pericarditis in patients with irradiation for different targets within and around the thorax is estimated around 5% on average and even less; indeed, with improvement in radiation treatment techniques, its incidence has decreased from 25% to 2% [1–3]. Clinically significant pericarditis is observed just in a limited percentage of patients after mediastinal radiation therapy [4].
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Sourati, A., Ameri, A., Malekzadeh, M. (2017). Pericarditis. In: Acute Side Effects of Radiation Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55950-6_11
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