and that's a classic symptom of pericarditis," she said on the TODAY show. "And then when you lay back, it gets way worse, ...

Country singer Carly Pearce — who was diagnosed with pericarditis — said that her symptoms were initially dismissed by doctors before learning she had the heart condition. She's now encouraging people ...

Although Pearce’s health condition was initially “dismissed” by medical professionals, she continued to press doctors until ...

Increased hydrostatic pressure causing a pericardial effusion is present in congestive heart failure ... aortic dissection or left ventricular free wall rupture after an MI can occur.

This limits diastolic relaxation of the heart and causes congestive ... BNP is released in response to myocardial wall stretch. In constrictive pericarditis, the scarred pericardium probits ...

"And then when you lay back, it gets way worse, because that wall is kind of ... father survived a widowmaker heart attack when she was 19. The chest pains from pericarditis can often mimic ...