"Bread and butter" fibrinous pericarditis

• Main Authors: Pedro Mansueto Melo de Souza (Author), Adriele Machado dos Santos (Author), Eurides Martins Paulino (Author), Carlos Gustavo Hirth (Author), Conceição Aparecida Dornelas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pericarditis is the inflammatory process involving the pericardium as a result of a systemic disease or a primary pericardium disorder.1 The actual incidence of pericarditis is difficult to ascertain,2 most probably because of under-reported or misdiagnosed cases. In the 19th century, Sir William Os...