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Carditis (pl. carditides) is the inflammation of the heart. [1] It is usually studied and treated by specifying it as: [citation needed] Pericarditis is the ...
Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium, the fibrous sac surrounding the heart. [8] Symptoms typically include sudden onset of sharp chest pain, which may also be felt in the shoulders, neck, or back. [1]
Myocarditis is defined as inflammation of the myocardium.Myocarditis can progress to inflammatory cardiomyopathy when there are associated ventricular remodeling and cardiac dysfunction due to chronic inflammation.
Chest pain is one of the common symptoms of acute pericarditis. It is usually of sudden onset, occurring in the anterior chest and often has a sharp quality that worsens with breathing in or coughing, due to inflammation of the pleural surface at the same time.
The appearance of myopericarditis is associated with infections such as acute tonsillitis, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis. [2]Smallpox vaccination has been a known risk factor for myocarditis and pericarditis since the 1950s. [3]
Infective endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart (endocardium), usually the valves. [1] Signs and symptoms may include fever, small areas of bleeding into the skin, heart murmur, feeling tired, and low red blood cell count.
While there are several older reports associating, clinically, allergy and the heart with names such as morphologic cardiac reactions, acute carditis, or lesions with basic characteristics of rheumatic carditis, the first full description of allergy-mediated acute coronary syndrome is attributed to the Greek cardiologist Nicholas Kounis, who in ...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels. [3] CVDs constitute a class of diseases that includes: coronary artery diseases (e.g. angina, heart attack), heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease, carditis, aortic aneurysms, peripheral artery disease ...