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Practice Guideline
. 2015 Nov 7;36(42):2921-2964.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv318. Epub 2015 Aug 29.

2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Yehuda Adler, Philippe Charron, Massimo Imazio, Luigi Badano, Gonzalo Barón-Esquivias, Jan Bogaert, Antonio Brucato, Pascal Gueret, Karin Klingel, Christos Lionis, Bernhard Maisch, Bongani Mayosi, Alain Pavie, Arsen D Ristic, Manel Sabaté Tenas, Petar Seferovic, Karl Swedberg, Witold Tomkowski; ESC Scientific Document Group
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2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Yehuda Adler et al. Eur Heart J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Aetiology; Constrictive pericarditis; Diagnosis; Guidelines; Myopericarditis; Pericardial effusion; Pericardiocentesis; Pericarditis; Pericardium; Prognosis; Tamponade; Therapy.

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Figure 1
Proposed triage of pericarditis.
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Figure 2
Therapeutic algorithm for acute and recurrent pericarditis (see text for explanation).
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Figure 3
A simplified algorithm for pericardial effusion triage and management.
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