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Pericarditis

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

About 5% of patients who present to A+E with chest pain which is not deemed to be a heart attack or angina are ultimately diagnosed with pericarditis. If the inflammation spreads to the surface of the heart itself, it is termed myopericarditis. Why does this inflammation happen? How may it present?