3 A Toolkit for Health Care Professionals Recurrent Pericarditis Contents 4 Contributing Authors 6 Introduction 6 Pericardial Anatomy, Structure and Function 9 Structured History Taking for Acute Pericarditis 11 Differential Diagnosis 12 Clinical Examination 13 Initial Investigations 14 Multimodality Imaging 15 Introduction to the Immune System, Inflammation and Mechanisms of Drug Action 16 Management of Acute Pericarditis 22 Recurrent Pericarditis 25 Surgery for Refractory Disease 26 Special Topics 29 Top Takeaways Plus! Treatment and tapering of initial therapies for acute and recurrent pericarditis Page 16 Significant drug interactions with colchicine Page 17
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