3 A Toolkit for Health Care Professionals Recurrent Pericarditis Contents 4 Introduction 4 Pericardial Anatomy, Structure and Function 7 Structured History Taking for Acute Pericarditis 9 Differential Diagnosis 10 Clinical Examination 11 Initial Investigations 12 Multimodality Imaging 13 Introduction to the Immune System, Inflammation and Mechanisms of Drug Action 14 Management of Acute Pericarditis 26 Special Topics 29 Top Takeaways Plus! Treatment and tapering of initial therapies for acute and recurrent pericarditis Page 14 Significant drug interactions with colchicine Page 15
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