Pericardial disease are conditions that affect your pericardium. Your pericardium is a flexible, two-layered sac that surrounds your heart. Your pericardium contains your heart in your chest wall. It ...

Children and adolescents had higher risks of vascular and inflammatory diseases after a first COVID diagnosis, as well as a higher risk of rare myocarditis or pericarditis after a first COVID vaccine.

A new study shows children and young people face long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection.

Introduction: Austrian Syndrome is a rare, life-threatening triad of pneumonia, meningitis, and endocarditis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, typically in immunocompromised or alcoholic patients.

Among older adults, the incidence of myocarditis or pericarditis was lower among those who received the high-dose inactivated flu vaccine versus the standard-dose vaccine. There were only two cases of ...

Madrid, Spain – 29 August: New ESC Guidelines to improve the diagnosis and care of patients with myocarditis and pericarditis, have been published today at ESC Congress 2025. This is the first time ...

New ESC Guidelines to improve the diagnosis and care of patients with myocarditis and pericarditis, have been published today at ESC Congress 2025. This is the first time the ESC has published ...

The American College of Cardiology has updated its guidance on pericarditis, led by Cleveland Clinic cardiologists Tom Kai Ming Wang, MD, and Allan Klein, MD, according to an Aug. 6 news release from ...

Infective endocarditis (IE) over the long term is much more common in patients who have undergone mitral valve (MV) replacement surgery than in those treated with MV repair or who have a moderate risk ...

Among MACEs, myocarditis and pericarditis were identified as appearing to be significantly more common in the ICI cohort (P =.048 for each), and no patients in the non-ICI cohort were found to have ...