Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis face a higher risk of hospitalization for heart failure and pulmonary edema, a new ...

Rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma are other collagen vascular disorders that cause autoimmune pericarditis and pericardial effusions. Dressler’s syndrome is an autoimmune reaction that occurs ...

Although rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with no cure, a tailored, multidisciplinary treatment approach at Cedars-Sinai's Inflammatory Arthritis Clinical Center helps patients get back ...

The clinical diagnosis of acute pericarditis is based on simple criteria: typical chest pain, pericardial friction rub (Figure 2), widespread ST-segment elevation (Figure 3) and pericardial ...

Pericarditis may be caused by infectious or noninfectious noxa. Most cases are labeled as 'idiopathic' because the traditional diagnostic approach often fails to identify the etiology. Most ...