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History and Physical Examination of a Patient with Pericardial Disease

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Acute pericarditis as its name indicates is a fairly sudden inflammation of the pericardial sac that encases the heart. It accounts for 5 % of non-ischemic chest pain visits to the Emergency Department annually [1, 2].

This chapter will primarily focus on the patient’s history and key physical examination findings that will allow clinical recognition of the diagnosis.

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  1. Cardiovascular Department, NSLIJ Lenox Hill, New York, NY, USA

    Suhash Patel DO

  2. Cardiac Imaging, Lenox Hill Hospital, Hofstra-NSLIJ School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Itzhak Kronzon MD, FASE

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Patel, S., Kronzon, I. (2014). History and Physical Examination of a Patient with Pericardial Disease. In: Herzog, E. (eds) Management of Pericardial Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06124-5_3

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