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. 2005 Jan;18(1):38–55. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2005.11928030

Table 3.

Etiology of fibrinous pericardial heart disease

  1. Acute myocardial infarction

  2. Iatrogenesis and trauma
    1. Cardiovascular operation
    2. Complications of catheterization
    3. Irradiation
    4. Chemical agents
    5. Penetrating and nonpenetrating injury

  3. Infectious agents

  4. Idiopathy (“acute benign nonspecific”)

  5. Neoplasm

  6. Association with systemic disease
    1. Renal disease (“uremia”)
    2. Collagen disease
      1. Acute rheumatic fever
      2. Rheumatoid arthritis
      3. Systemic lupus erythematosus
    3. Hypersensitivity states and drug induction