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Value of multimodal imaging in recurrent pericarditis – clinical burden of hemodynamic and inflammation imaging

Recurrent pericarditis can occur in up to 30% of patients after acute episode of pericarditis and is associated with significantly impaired quality of life and morbidity1. High rate of recurrence remains despite treatment as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), colchicine, steroids or other immunosuppressants1. If medical therapy fails, in case of symptomatic constrictive hemodynamics, surgical approach-pericardiectomy is indicated. Therefore, imaging modalities have to distinguish between hemodynamic assessment, where echocardiography is first line imaging modality, and inflammation where other cardiac imaging modalities complement echocardiographic findings.

recurrent pericarditis ; echocariography

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