Medical therapy of pericardial diseases: part II: Noninfectious pericarditis, pericardial effusion and constrictive pericarditis.

Abstract

The treatment of pericardial diseases is largely empirical because of the relative lack of randomized trials compared with other cardiovascular diseases. The main forms of pericardial diseases that can be encountered in the clinical setting include acute and recurrent pericarditis, pericardial effusion with or without cardiac tamponade, and constrictive pericarditis. Medical treatment should be targeted at the cause as much as possible. In this article, the therapy of more common forms of noninfectious pericarditis (pericarditis in systemic autoimmune diseases and neoplastic pericardial disease), pericardial effusion, and constrictive pericarditis is reviewed.

• Authors: Massimo Imazio, Antonio Brucato, Bongani M Mayosi, Francesco Giuseppe Derosa, Chiara Lestuzzi, Antonio Macor, Rita Trinchero, David H Spodick, Yehuda Adler
• Journal: Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.) (J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)) Vol. 11 Issue 11 Pg. 785-94 (Nov 2010) ISSN: 1558-2035 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 20925146 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Chemical References

• Anti-Inflammatory Agents
• Antineoplastic Agents

Topics

• Anti-Inflammatory Agents (therapeutic use)
• Antineoplastic Agents (therapeutic use)
• Autoimmune Diseases (complications, drug therapy)
• Cardiac Tamponade (etiology)
• Humans
• Neoplasms (complications, drug therapy)
• Pericardial Effusion (diagnosis, drug therapy, etiology)
• Pericarditis (diagnosis, drug therapy, etiology)
• Pericarditis, Constrictive (diagnosis, drug therapy, etiology)
• Treatment Outcome