Pericarditis

Paul Auwaerter, M.D.
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PATHOGENS

  • Pericarditis causes: include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
  • Infectious pathogens: a partial listing
    • Viruses:
      • Enteroviruses (Coxsackie, Echovirus)
      • HIV (AIDS-associated pericarditis)
      • Influenza
      • Mumps
      • Varicella zoster virus
      • Epstein Barr virus
      • Cytomegalovirus
      • HHV-6
      • Adenovirus
    • Bacteria: in the antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/ anaerobes)
      • Staphylococcus aureus (most common single organism cause)
      • Streptococcus pneumoniae
      • Neisseria meningitidis  
      • Haemophilus influenzae
      • Salmonella spp
      • Leptospira spp.
      • Providencia stuartii 
      • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
      • Anaerobes
      • Peptostreptococcus 
      • Cutibacterium acnes
      • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
        • Most frequent worldwide, especially low-resource, endemic countries.
        • Frequently associated with HIV infection.
      • Coxiella burnetti
      • Borrelia burgdorferi (infrequent cause of pericardial effusions)
    • Fungal:
      • Coccidioides immitis
      • Histoplasma capsulatum
      • Blastomyces spp.
      • Candida spp. (immunocompromised pts)
      • Aspergillus spp. (immunocompromised pts)
      • Cryptococcus neoformans (immunocompromised pts)
    • Parasitic:
      • Echinococcus spp.
      • Toxoplasma gondii 

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PATHOGENS

  • Pericarditis causes: include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
  • Infectious pathogens: a partial listing
    • Viruses:
      • Enteroviruses (Coxsackie, Echovirus)
      • HIV (AIDS-associated pericarditis)
      • Influenza
      • Mumps
      • Varicella zoster virus
      • Epstein Barr virus
      • Cytomegalovirus
      • HHV-6
      • Adenovirus
    • Bacteria: in the antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/ anaerobes)
      • Staphylococcus aureus (most common single organism cause)
      • Streptococcus pneumoniae
      • Neisseria meningitidis  
      • Haemophilus influenzae
      • Salmonella spp
      • Leptospira spp.
      • Providencia stuartii 
      • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
      • Anaerobes
      • Peptostreptococcus 
      • Cutibacterium acnes
      • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
        • Most frequent worldwide, especially low-resource, endemic countries.
        • Frequently associated with HIV infection.
      • Coxiella burnetti
      • Borrelia burgdorferi (infrequent cause of pericardial effusions)
    • Fungal:
      • Coccidioides immitis
      • Histoplasma capsulatum
      • Blastomyces spp.
      • Candida spp. (immunocompromised pts)
      • Aspergillus spp. (immunocompromised pts)
      • Cryptococcus neoformans (immunocompromised pts)
    • Parasitic:
      • Echinococcus spp.
      • Toxoplasma gondii 

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