Treatment of Pericarditis at the Leading Cardiac Center in Israel
Pericarditis is an inflammatory disease of the pericardium with purulent, fibrinous, serous, or hemorrhagic manifestations.
Pericarditis occurs as a result of viral diseases, myocardial infarction, uremia, infectious bacterial processes such as tuberculosis, collagenoses, radiation therapy, due to oncological diseases, blunt chest trauma, and heart surgeries. In pericarditis, there may be a need for cardiac tamponade, and constrictive pericarditis may also develop.
Specialists at the Top Ihilov Cardiac Center work closely with the cardiac surgery and oncology departments, allowing for the most comprehensive diagnostic examination and selection of the most effective treatment method for pericarditis.
Treatment of Pericarditis
For the treatment of parasitic forms, antihelminthic agents are prescribed. Pyogenic and infectious pericarditis are treated with antibiotics. Pericarditis resulting from systemic diseases is treated with glucocorticoids. In cases of allergic manifestations of pericardial diseases, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used. Surgical treatment is performed for constrictive pericarditis.
The Top Ihilov Cardiac Center treats all types of pericarditis, including:
- Fibrinous pericarditis - characterized by acute heart pain due to dryness and lack of fluid in the pericardial cavity
- Compressing or constrictive pericarditis
- Acute and chronic adhesive
- Exudative - characterized by compression of the heart and accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac
- The center also treats injuries, non-inflammatory diseases of the pericardium, cysts, anomalies and developmental defects of the pericardium, benign and malignant tumours of the pericardium.
- Treatment of pericardial cancer, sarcoma, myoma, fibroma of the pericardium, tumours resulting from metastases of breast or lung cancer is also conducted. Congenital pericardial cysts and diverticula are treated.
Diagnosis of Pericardial Diseases
Doctors at the cardiac center perform ECG, radiological studies, use computed tomography and echocardiography for diagnosing pericardial diseases. Medical and surgical treatment is applied in the treatment of pericarditis.