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Pericardium and Pericarditis
What is the pericardium?
The pericardium (pair"e-KAR'de-um) is the thin sac (membrane) that surrounds the heart and the roots of the great blood vessels.
What is pericarditis?
Pericarditis (pair"e-kar-DI'tis) is inflammation of the pericardium. The pericardium has an inner and outer layer with a small amount of lubricating fluid between them. When the pericardium becomes inflamed, the amount of fluid between the two layers increases. This squeezes the heart and restricts its action.
Who gets pericarditis and what does it feel like?
This problem occurs most often in men ages 20 to 50. Chest pain is common, especially pain behind the breastbone. Sometimes this pain spreads to the neck and left shoulder. Pain from pericarditis is different from angina (AN'jih-nah or an-JI'nah). (Angina is chest pain or discomfort due to reduced blood supply to the heart muscle.) Angina feels like pressure, but pericarditis usually is a sharp, piercing pain over the center or left side of the chest. Often this pain gets worse if the person takes a deep breath. Less often the pain is dull. A fever is also common. Often people with pericarditis report feeling sick. Some have pain when they swallow.
What causes pericarditis?
In most cases, why pericarditis occurs is unknown. However, it can result from one or more of these:
a viral, bacterial or fungal infection
heart attack
cancer spreading from a nearby tumor in the lung, breast or the blood
radiation treatment
injury or surgery
Sometimes it accompanies rheumatoid arthritis, lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus) (e-rith"eh-mah-TO'sus) and kidney failure.
How is pericarditis treated?
Analgesics or anti-inflammatory drugs are given to relieve pain. Antibiotics are also prescribed if the pericarditis is due to a bacterial infection. If excess fluid is seriously affecting the heart's action, a needle may be used to draw it off. In some cases surgery may be required.
Acute inflammatory pericarditis usually lasts one to three weeks and doesn't lead to further problems. About 20 percent of pericarditis patients have a recurrence within months or, rarely, within years.
Go to the doctor
Don't ever ask anyone from motodrive for advice"
Agreed on the 1st point, and after this, also agreed on the second.
Regards,
R. Mark Russell, MD, MPH
Tucson, AZ
Time to get serious.
Is Bubba's dog Ok??!!
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Really good heart advice.....
As for Bubba's dog.....I think he has pericarditis.
....what?
what a fuckstick..
Welcome aboard and good luck at the doctor.
Just as Terry has stated, Welcome, now STFU.
I have something called Long QT syndrome.
I have to wear a cardioverter AKA defib/pacer unit under chest; wires in both ventricles.
I dropped dead twice; second time 6 days coma. Device shocks my heart back to normal rythem.
Use to be a avid runner,cyclist, racer, anything to get the rush. Lived for that rush.
Thought it would last the rest of my life.....Not.
Now, I nor anyone has any idea of my life expectancy, quality of life is shit since I cannot exercise like I once did or risk my heart going again into V-fib; the worst heart event. Have to avoid prolonged stress and any exercise like I use to do. To me, a death sentence.
I had numerous symptoms related to the syndrome that "several" doctors overlooked . I had fainting spells. My EKGs showed prolonged QT along with over 8K arrythmias(heart rythems) but the doc said my heart was fine. I trusted them and wasn't proactive like should've been.
Dropped dead twice within 2 weeks few months later.
I doubt you have such a problem, but go; go NOW to the ER. if not, walk in to your Dr. Office first thing in AM. ER IMO. Don't screw around if you have anything that you may think heart related.
Fucked depending on meds and a box with wires for prolonging my life that I can't do things use to take for granted. I've ridden two or three times for short periods; would hate to crash and explode my aorta where the wires are weaved into each ventricle.
Can't wait for my future surgeries replacing the box due to low battery power. And the bills that overwhelm me.
Don't take any chances and seek other opinions. Be real proactive.
Pit Row
My good friend was having chest pain, and he didn't go to the hospital. He collapsed on his living room floor, and luckily his very young daughter was able to hand him the phone. He was paddled back to life, and he can recall himself dying and wishing they'd stop shocking him because it hurt so much. He then spent the next 4 years walking on eggshells.
You want the same thing? Make sure you keep that phone near.
Go to the damn hospital.
Um,
too easy but,
How often and does viagra help?
Go to the ER - and STFU. Idiot.
Seriously though? Why all the damn flamming over a simple question? It's not like I flammed anyone in any of MY posts. Not everyone responding was an ignorant ass like "KTM boy 137" up there, but Jesus Christ, is everybody out there so damn miserable that you just wait for an opportunity to bash somebody for asking for advice? It's not like I was basing my decision on whether or not to get it checked out by what you guys said, I just wanted some feedback about similar experiences...i.e. if any of you had a pain like this after riding...which a couple of you offered.
By the way, I made an opiontment and got an EKG today. The doc says everything looks good and that the chest pain was probably coming from the chest cavity and not the heart itself.
Don't take the beating too personal...If you stick around long enough and take the inmate beating you'll be fine... You'll actually find that many people that posted "funnies" in your thread are actually quite cool and would probably do just about anything for anybody on here...
Sorry if I'm not ready to just be all cheery and say "hey you idiot, it could be serious and you could die like my buddy... let me tell you his story!"
Sorry fuckhead, it doesn't work like that. I miss those I've lost to heart attacks, and "chest pains"... and for the sake of those around you - you should really have just shut the fuck up and went to the hospital. Coming on the interweb and asking for 'thoughts or stories' about chest pains is about as idiotic as it gets. Don't be so fucking dense.
Better yet, don't like the assholes? Good. Leave then. There are tons of message boards which could fill your void. This hopefully won't be the one for you.
Just to throw some semi related, random bits of info out there, I drove a co-worker to the hospital once because he had all the symptoms of a heart attack. Turns out he had a blood clot in his leg that got dislodged and sent a bunch of mini clots into his lungs, killing some part of the lung in the process.
There's no need to be so negative with all the name calling.....jeesh.
R. Mark Russell, MD, MPH
Ok, I tried not to do that but it's too late. I did it.
Oh, glad the problem is not serious.
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