title: European Guidelines on Pericardial Diseases: a Focused Review of Novel Aspects.
abstract: Pericardial diseases are not uncommon in daily clinical practice. The spectrum of these syndromes includes acute and chronic pericarditis, pericardial effusion, constrictive pericarditis, congenital defects, and neoplasms. The extent of the high-quality evidence on pericardial diseases has expanded significantly since the first international guidelines on pericardial disease management were published by the European Society of Cardiology in 2004. The clinical practice guidelines provide a useful reference for physicians in selecting the best management strategy for an individual patient by summarizing the current state of knowledge in a particular field. The new clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases that have been published by the European Society of Cardiology in 2015 represent such a tool and focus on assisting the physicians in their daily clinical practice. The aim of this review is to outline and emphasize the most clinically relevant new aspects of the current guidelines as compared with its previous version published in 2004.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine D, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, The Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fardman
authors.affiliation: Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, AP-HP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Charron
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, Maria Vittoria Hospital and Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imazio
authors.affiliation: Management, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, The Sackler School of Medicine Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Yehuda.Adler@sheba.health.gov.il.
authors.forename: Yehuda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Adler
mesh_terms: D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D002309:Cardiology / Q000592:standards; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: Clinical practice guidelines; Constrictive pericarditis; European Society of Cardiology; Pericardial effusion; Pericarditis