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The cardiovascular diseases

THE ACUTE PERICARDITIS

- Definition
- The Symptoms
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Diagnosis of assess gravity
- The Causes
- Evolution
- Treatment
- Conclusion

EVOLUTION

The most frequent evolutionary and post-infarct mode of the viral pericarditis is the spontaneous regression or regression under treatment after a few days or weeks.

A slow evolution justifies the research of a cause by surgical biopsy of the pericardium.

In 15 to 25% of the cases of viral pericarditises, one sometimes observes relapses, sometimes over many years.

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