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Acute and Chronic Pericarditis

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Compared with myocardial infarction (MI), pericarditis is quite a rare disease. Acute pericarditis is generally of viral or unknown etiology.The main symptom is a sharp (occasionally dull) pain of quite sudden onset, in the heart region, that varies with breathing and with different body positions. The pain may radiate to the neck and the scapular region. ECG alterations can be detected in about 90% of the cases if serial ECGs are available.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern, University Clinic Inselspital, CH-3010, Bern, Switzerland

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Gertsch, M. (2004). Acute and Chronic Pericarditis. In: The ECG. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10315-9_16

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