Epidemiology

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Etiology

Infection

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Rheumatologic Disease

• Churg-Strauss Syndrome (see Churg-Strauss Syndrome)
• Microscopic Polyangiitis (see Microscopic Polyangiitis)
• Behcet’s Disease (see Behcet’s Disease)
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) (see Wegener’s Granulomatosis)

Drug/Toxin

• Dantrolene (see Dantrolene)
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Physiology

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Clinical Manifestations

Cardiac Manifestations

• Chest Pain (see Chest Pain)
• Pericardial Effusion
  • Diagnosis
    • Echocardiogram: xxx
• Pericardial Rub

Pulmonary Manifestations

• Pleural Effusion (see Pleural Effusion-Exudate)
  • Mechanism: probably due to pericardial inflammation, not increased pressures
  • Diagnosis: characteristics of fluid have not been well-described
  • Clinical: usually left-sided
  • Prognosis: xxx

Other Manifestations

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Treatment

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References

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