Treatment of tuberculous pericarditis requires the cooperation of a multidisciplinary team (cardiologists and infectious diseases specialists, occasionally a pneumologist and internal medicine ...

New research suggests the use of oral prednisone should be limited in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with a history of recurrent pericarditis.

A scientific statement regarding sex differences in patients with peripheral vascular disease has been published by the AHA.

Pericardial effusions can be caused by multiple disease states, including any process that results in pericarditis or myocarditis. The inflammatory reaction in these disease states can result in ...

Pericarditis occurs in 15% to 30% of patients with SLE, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack its own tissues. It is well known that, in the general ...

Pericarditis occurs in 15% to 30% of patients with SLE, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack its own tissues. "It is well known that, in the general ...

recurrence of pericarditis occurs in more than 20 percent of patients and associated factors include younger age, prednisone treatment, and active SLE disease, according to a study published ...

"When I was first told I had pericarditis, I said 'peri - what?' I hadno idea what it was. I thought it was an older person's disease," shesays. Today, Braxton knows better. And as a spokesperson ...

Corporate Update Kiniksa continues to focus development on diseases with unmet need ... in recurrent pericarditis with a target profile of monthly subcutaneous (SC) dosing. Kiniksa is conducting ...

Noninfectious pericarditis mainly includes autoimmune systemic diseases, post-pericardiotomy syndromes and neoplastic pericardial disease. Treatment should be targeted to the cause, but remains ...

Kiniksa continues to focus development on diseases with unmet need ... signaling of the cytokines IL-1α and IL-1β, in recurrent pericarditis with a target profile of monthly subcutaneous ...