Dr. Brucato and colleagues raise an important issue in the nomenclature of pericardial disease: diagnoses of most patients with acute or recurrent pericarditis are labeled idiopathic . As the authors… Click to show full abstract
Dr. Brucato and colleagues raise an important issue in the nomenclature of pericardial disease: diagnoses of most patients with acute or recurrent pericarditis are labeled idiopathic . As the authors note, the term idiopathic elicits a sense of complacency among physicians. For patients, the
               
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