American Heart Association: Gives an explanation for both pericardium and pericarditis. Brief discussion on who gets it, the causes and treatment.
e-medicine - Pericarditis: Thorough explanation of the clinical diagnosis and management of pericarditis.
InteliHealth Condition Center: A description of pericarditis, the symptoms, what your doctor looks for, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, prognosis and when to call your doctor.
Medstudents-Cardiology: A review of the basic and clinical characteristics of constrictive pericarditis. Including analysis of surgical treatment and long term outcome.
Methodist Health Care System: Pericarditis: An explanation as well as causes, symptoms and treatment.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine: A look at acute, chronic, constrictive, adhesive, viral, bacterial, fungal and uremic pericaditis. The causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
Penn State Cardiovascular Center: Patient Education: Explanation as well as discussion on causes, diagnosis, symptoms and treatment of pericarditis.
Pericardial Disease: The Merck Manual discusses both acute and chronic pericarditis. Looks at signs, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of both.
