Women and patients with a history of coagulopathy have a heightened risk of significant pericardial complications during TAVR, new data show. For procedures performed in the United States between 2012 ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — In the Post-Operative Pericardial Effusion-2 (POPE-2) trial, once again, the anti-inflammatory drug colchicine was not effective for warding off complications following cardiac ...

Recurrence is a serious complication of acute pericarditis. Recurrent pericarditis is a term used when a pericarditis patient relapses after discontinuation of treatment. It can also be described as a ...

Cardiac complications are rare following both SARS-CoV-2 infection and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, but that risk is significantly higher following the infection itself across all age groups, for both ...

A patient develops pericarditis 19 days after testing positive test for COVID-19. The authors describe how to recognize, diagnose, and treat this condition. This is the fourth installment of our ...

TORINO, Italy — In a prospective study, almost 500 patients with pericarditis, myopericarditis, or perimyocarditis who were followed for three years had "benign" outcomes, and the only significant ...

Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be curative for various hematological disorders, it continues to be associated with a significant incidence of treatment-related ...

Covid vaccines that use mRNA technology carry a slight risk of heart complications for some individuals, but far less than the risk of heart complications that comes with having a Covid infection, ...

PERICARDIAL inflammation is a relatively common complication of uremia. Although its occurrence seems superficially related to the degree of renal failure the pathogenesis is still obscure. The ...

DESCRIPTIONS of the syndrome of acute nonspecific or idiopathic pericarditis appearing since the report by Barnes and Burchell 1 have added little to knowledge of the subject. They have, however, ...

In the past few weeks, health authorities have identified an increase in reports of heart inflammation occurring in individuals who have received one of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in the United States ...