Pericarditis is an inflammation of the layers of the pericardium. This is such a two-layer shell of the heart. The heart is quite tightly packed between the lungs and the abdomen, so it needs lubrication to contract freely. And between the two layers of the pericardium, about a glass of liquid spreads, which very slowly sweats there from the blood vessels. That is, it is the liquid part of the blood. From here, you can immediately fantasize that too much fluid can be filtered from the blood into the pericardial cavity.
When the pericardium becomes inflamed, and it becomes inflamed for various reasons, it becomes painful. It's such a sharp pain that it feels like pain with pleurisy.
With pericarditis, the pericardial sheets rub against each other, and the so-called pericardial friction noise appears. It is similar to the pleural friction noise in pleurisy. The cardiologist listens to such a heart and begins to choose between pericarditis and pleurisy. With pleurisy, there will be a murmur during breathing, and with pericarditis, there will be a murmur with each heartbeat. Therefore, the cardiologist will suggest not breathing for a while while he listens to the heart.
Pericarditis is caused by infection, for some unknown reason, with injuries, with tumors, autoimmune diseases and many other reasons. This thing usually hurts pretty scary. Therefore, hardly anyone doubts whether to call him an ambulance.
If too much fluid accumulates in the pericardial cavity from inflammation, this fluid will compress the heart. Or gradually the pericardium will shrink with inflammation and also compress the heart. So sometimes there is a chance to die from pericarditis.
In fact, you will not be taken to the hospital with a flashing light for every pericarditis. It would be bad if the body temperature rises above 38 degrees. Or if the pericarditis was growing slowly. This is also bad. Well, that is, acute pericarditis will roll and roll back, and when it gets worse and worse in a few weeks, it hints at a sad outcome.
If a person is hit by a car, and pericarditis has begun from a bruise, then this is a good reason to go to the hospital.
If you ate some fancy blood-thinning agent and got pericarditis, then this situation is not much better than if a car hit your heart with a bumper. Also a good reason to lie down in the hospital.
In general, somewhere in every twentieth person whom the ambulance brought to the hospital with a heart attack, but the heart attack was not there, then it turns out with pericarditis. Well, or one in a thousand people just lying in the hospital for other business, has pericarditis. So the problem is pretty popular. So feel free to call an ambulance for chest pain.
