Country singer Carly Pearce, 34, provided a health update on her chronic health condition called pericarditis. She has ...

Severe weakness and tiredness often develop if the pericarditis persists (e.g., chronic pericarditis) or impairs the heart's ...

The Grammy winner is looking to raise awareness of pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart, after living with it since ...

The AHA notes that acute pericarditis generally clears up on its own. However, in some cases, it can develop into chronic pericarditis without treatment. People need to speak with a doctor if they ...

Recurrences are the most common complication, but the overall prognosis is related to the etiology, usually benign in idiopathic pericarditis. Chronic inflammation with fibrosis, calcification and ...

elevated markers of inflammation and ECG changes or pericardial effusion). Chronic cases are manifested by the persistence of clinical features of disease beyond a usual arbitrary time of 3 months.

Again, most cases are independent and can be successfully treated with medicine, but when pericarditis becomes recurrent, experts said patients are essentially suffering from a chronic illness ...