Pericarditi

months) pericarditis includes effusive, adhesive and constrictive
forms
• Myopericarditis
It is characterized frequently by atrial arrhythmias and elevation
of cardiac biological markers. Pejorative evolution toward
cardiac insufficiency can be noted.
• Tamponnade
It is the decompensate phase of cardiac compression caused
by effusion accumulation and the increased intrapericardial
pressure. It can be an surgical urgency.
Clinically, heard sounds are distant, orthopnoea, cough,
dysphagia with episodes of unconsciousness are observed.
Arterial hypotension with pulsus paradoxus (decreased of
systolic pressure with breath inspiration) is noted. In half of the
cases, it is from neoplasm origin and need surgical drainage.
• Constrictive pericarditis
It is a rare but severe disabling consequence of the chronic
inflammation.