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CardiovascularModerate
Pericarditis
Cardiology · Cardiovascular
Moderate
Severity
Uncommon — a relatively infrequent condition, though it is one of the more common causes of chest pain in emergency settings among younger adults
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Cardiology
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly caused by viral infections
- 2though it can also result from bacterial infections
- 3autoimmune conditions such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis
- 4kidney failure
- 5or occur following a heart attack or cardiac surgery. In many cases
- 6particularly mild acute episodes
- 7no specific cause is identified and the condition is presumed to be viral or idiopathic. Certain medications and radiation therapy to the chest can also trigger pericardial inflammation.
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