CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) — A UVA Health cardiologist was recently featured alongside NHL Hall-of-Famer Henrik Lundqvist in a national campaign to raise awareness about a rare heart condition. UVA ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion on the new American Heart Association’s pericarditis initiative with Jimmy Kerrigan, MD. For the estimated 40,000 adults with recurrent pericarditis in the United ...

Dressler’s syndrome is a rare but treatable type of inflammation in the sac surrounding the heart. It develops shortly after a heart injury, such as a heart attack, and may return after treatment. The ...

Avoid strenuous activity if you have active inflammation from pericarditis. After the inflammation lowers, your doctor can recommend exercises that are safe to do. Pericarditis is a rare disease that ...

A new study of more than 2,900 patients provides evidence that it's likely best to use as little corticosteroid medicine as possible when treating people who have lupus pericarditis, a common heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with lupus, those taking prednisone or demonstrating active disease and a more recent initial ...

– Life DisRPted is an educational campaign aimed at promoting early diagnosis and treatment of recurrent pericarditis, a painful and debilitating chronic autoinflammatory disease – LONDON, Oct. 01, ...

Pericarditis is an immune condition, not, strictly speaking, a cardiologic condition. Wax had been physically active ...