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Pericarditis Symptoms - Answer - Chest Pain worse when lying flat - Fever - Dyspnea - Anxiety Pericarditis Signs - Answer -Tachypnea -Pericardial friction rub (Have the patient lean forward) Pericarditis Diagnosis labs - Answer -CBC -CMP -ESR -CRP

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Pericarditis - Answer Inflammation of the pericardium
- Acute
- Sub-Acute
- Chronic

*May result in Pericardial Effusion and Cardiac Tamponade*

Chronic Pericarditis - Answer Constrictive:
- Adherence of the pericardium to the myocardium restricting the heart’s ability to pump

Causes of Pericarditis - Answer -Idiopathic

Infectious
-Viral (Coxsackie, Echo Virus, Influenza)
-Bacterial (Tuberculosis, Staph, Strep Rhematic)
-Fungal (Histoplasmosis)

-Uremic
-Dressler's Syndrome

Dressler's Syndrome - Answer Inflammatory condition that occurs when the heart or
pericardium has been injured.
- Post-pericardiotomy (Open Heart Surgery)
- Following Myocardial Infarction

Dressler's Syndrome triad - Answer -Pleuritic Pain
-Fever
-Pericardial Effusion

Pericarditis Symptoms - Answer - Chest Pain worse when lying flat
- Fever
- Dyspnea
- Anxiety

Pericarditis Signs - Answer -Tachypnea
-Pericardial friction rub (Have the pt lean forward)

Pericarditis Diagnosis labs - Answer -CBC
-CMP
-ESR
-CRP

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