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pancarditis

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Noun1.pancarditis - inflammation of the entire heart (the epicardium and the myocardium and the endocardium)
carditis - inflammation of the heart


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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN HIV In the pre-HAART era (before 1996), the cardiac manifestations of HIV were mainly due to the toxic and inflammatory effects of HIV and included cardiomyopathy, pancarditis and pulmonary hypertension leading to heart failure [7] (Table 1).
Those with the fulminant course tend to have abnormal Q waves, ST segment elevation and prolonged QRS duration indicating widespread pancarditis (7).
Steere and other doctors reported a death from Lyme disease--the sudden heart failure from pancarditis, or spirochete involvement throughout the heart muscle, of a man from Nantucket.
 
 
 
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