Pericarditis

Question 1

main sign of pericarditis

Answer 1

fever and pleuritic chest pain, relieved by sitting up and leaning forward

Question 2

signs of pericarditis

Answer 2

Non-productive cough, dyspnoea, flu-like symptoms, tachy-pnoea/cardia, pericardial rub

Question 3

causes of pericarditis

Answer 3

Viral (Coxsackie/ECHO)
TB
uraemia (fibrinous pericarditis) 
Trauma
post MI
connective tissue disease (SLE)
hypothyroidism
infective endocarditis with valve right abscess
Fungi in immunosuppressed 
rheumatic fever 
drug induced

Question 4

how does pericarditis appear on ECG

Answer 4

saddle shaped ST elevation

PR depression

Question 5

if pericarditis is caused post MI what disease occurs

Answer 5

Dressler’s syndrome, weeks later, damage to heart muscle = immune response

Question 6

complications of pericarditis

Answer 6

pericardial effusion
tamponade
constrictive pericarditis
cardiac failure