IMPI: No Immunotherapy Benefit in Tuberculous PericarditisIMPI: No Immunotherapy Benefit in Tuberculous Pericarditis
Although prednisolone might be appropriate in some patients, the authors propose, neither the glucocorticoid nor M indicus pranii immunotherapy improved survival in the 1400-patient trial. Heartwire (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 8, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
ESC: Mixed Results with Steroids in TB Pericarditis
BARCELONA (MedPage Today) -- Adding steroids to anti-tuberculosis treatment for patients with tuberculous pericarditis can reduce the risk of complication and the resulting hospital admission, but adding prednisolone to tuberculosis treatment did not reduce the risk of death, researchers said here. (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - September 3, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
COPPS-2: Colchicine Stops Postop Pericarditis, Troubles GutCOPPS-2: Colchicine Stops Postop Pericarditis, Troubles Gut
In COPPS-2, patients taking colchicine had a high rate of adverse GI events, and this likely explains why there was no overall benefit in preventing AF after cardiac surgery; but it was effective for pericarditis of postpericardiotomy syndrome. Heartwire (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
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Daily aspirin therapy: Understand the benefits and risks Pericarditis Stage 4 prostate cancer treatment Agoraphobia Positron emission tomography (PET) scan (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - May 22, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Featured in NEJM Journal Watch: Mounting Evidence Supports Colchicine for Pericarditis (FREE)
By the NEJM Journal Watch Editors
In a new … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - May 20, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
ACC: Gout Drug Tames the Heart
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Colchicine may be as effective at reducing multiple recurrences of pericarditis as it is in treating acute episodes and first recurrences. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 30, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Colchicine reduces recurrence risk among patients with recurrent pericarditis
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Colchicine reduces recurrence risk among patients with recurrent pericarditis (Source: MD Consult: News: Top Stories)
Source: MD Consult: News: Top Stories - March 29, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Primary Cardiac Disease Still Occurs in Lupus
(MedPage Today) -- Pericarditis and other forms of primary cardiac disease can occur at any time during the course of systemic lupus erythematosus, but antimalarial treatment can be protective, South American researchers reported. (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - March 19, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Jon Ronson is ready for blast-off. Is Richard Branson?
After a 10-year wait, Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will have lift-off this year: he and his children will be on the first (live televised) flight. What took them so long? Jon Ronson meets him and the 'future astronauts' as they prepare for the ride of their livesIt's dawn at the Mojave Air & Space Port, a cluster of weather-beaten hangars in the desert north of Los Angeles. It looks quite forlorn, in part an elephant's graveyard for half-finished prototype jets designed by visionaries who ran out of money. But it's also a gathering place for freewheeling, maverick space engineers to try out new ideas in the de...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 21, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jon Ronson Tags: Virgin Group The Guardian Richard Branson Travel & leisure Features Business Science Space Source Type: news
Acute Pericarditis
An article from the e-journal of the ESC Council for Cardiology PracticeTopics: Pericardial DiseaseAuthors: Valladares C. The typical complaint of acute pericarditis is chest pain, which radiates to one or both trapezius muscle ridges. An audible friction rub will often be noted with widespread ST-segment elevation as the expression of subepicardial myocardial involvement. See here latest on diagnosis, treatment and follow up of acute pericarditis.
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Pericardial Disease (Source: ESC News and Press)
Source: ESC News and Press - February 18, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
A Descriptive Analysis of ED Diagnosed Acute PericarditisA Descriptive Analysis of ED Diagnosed Acute Pericarditis
Learn more on the presentation, assessment and management of patients with an ED diagnosis of acute pericarditis. Emergency Medicine Journal (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Pericarditis -- Chest Pain That's Usually not Related to a Heart Attack
A sharp pain near the heart that spreads along the arm and neck might not be a heart attack. It could be pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart that is not life-threatening, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. (Source: Mayo Clinic Health Information)
Source: Mayo Clinic Health Information - December 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mayo Clinic Source Type: news
Pericarditis -- Chest Pain That's Usually not Related to a Heart Attack
A sharp pain near the heart that spreads along the arm and neck might not be a heart attack. It could be pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart that is not life-threatening, according to the Mayo Clinic Health Letter. (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - December 19, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Mayo Clinic Source Type: news
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)
(MedPage Today) -- This week's topics include behavior and kids' bedtimes, treating pericarditis, probiotics for diarrhea, and asymptomatic aneurysms in the brain. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - October 18, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Colchicine Found Effective in Acute Pericarditis
Although colchicine has been shown to be beneficial in patients with recurrent pericarditis, which is thought to have a large inflammatory component related to an immune response, until now its efficacy in a first episode of acute pericarditis has been uncertain, as these episodes are thought to usually have a viral component that might benefit from an inflammatory response. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 12, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Larry Husten Source Type: news
