Browsing: Pericarditis

The heart is a muscular organ that works as your body’s circulatory pump. It takes in deoxygenated blood through the veins and delivers it to the lungs for oxygenation and then pumps this oxygenated blood into the arteries. In coronary heart disease, the heart does not function properly. Learn more about your heart.

Sharp pain in chest can be caused by anything from usual muscle pain to a severe heart disease. Enlarged or dilated heart can develop as a result of many heart diseases. Some of them can show signs such as pain in chest and breathlessness.

Pericarditis can be diagnosed through ECG. It is a painless and non-invasive test with quick results. You will be asked to lay flat on a table and chest raised a little. The patient is asked to relax for a few minutes during an ECG procedure so that the electrodes can be placed properly to give reliable results.

Malignant pericardial effusion is a serious manifestation in advanced cancers like lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, and hematological melagnancies such as leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It is characterized by cancers which cause extra fluid or blood to collect inside the pericardium.

Our heart is surrounded by a sac which is filled with a small amount of fluid. The fluid around the heart keeps on moving as it is continually produced and drained. This makes the level of the liquid to stay constant. Sometimes, the drainage system gets disturbed due to some problems or diseases.

Pericarditis is the inflammation (swelling and irritation) of the pericardium or around the heart. The pericardium is a two-layered thin sac that is filled with a fluid. It covers the outer surface of the heart and protects it. It also provides lubrication for the heart and shields it from any infection.

Pericarditis makes the sac covering the heart (pericardium) inflamed and swollen followed by severe chest pain. There are many factors that…