Treatment of refractory recurrent pericarditis

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 748-753

  Imazio, Massimo ^a   Cecchi, Enrico ^a   Correndo, Livio ^b   D'Oulx, Emanuele Antonielli ^b   Doronzo, Baldassarre ^b   Trinchero, Rita ^a  

^a MARIA VITTORIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Ospedale SS Annunziata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pericarditis; Recurrent pericarditis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; AZATHIOPRINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY; COLCHICINE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34548023492     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3280101e24     Document Type: Article

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