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→Pericarditis
*H&P: Possible history of recent MI, improved when leaning forward, can have pleuritic chest pain, cardiac rub
*H&P: Possible history of recent MI, improved when leaning forward, can have pleuritic chest pain, cardiac rub
*Dx: Can show calcifications on CXR
*Dx: Can show calcifications on CXR
*Tx: '''High-dose aspirin for post-MI acute pericarditis, otherwise NSAIDs and colchicine for normal pericarditis'''.
*Tx: '''High-dose aspirin''' for post-MI acute pericarditis, otherwise '''NSAIDs and colchicine''' for normal pericarditis.
==[[Cardiac Tamponade]]==
==[[Cardiac Tamponade]]==
*H&P: Beck's triad
*H&P: Beck's triad