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 ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Beck's triad is a term used to describe a set of symptoms that can indicate a severe heart problem. It consists of three symptoms that often occur together: ...

calcification or effusion. While clinical, ECG and hemodynamic evaluation have been the established methods for the diagnosis of pericardial disease, advances in cardiac computed tomography and ...