Lipomas can occur in the heart, including in the visceral and parietal pericardium. Parietal pericardial lipomas are often clinically mistaken for pericardial cysts. Multiple myocardial lipomas have ...

Laboratory signs of inflammation are common in patients with myopericarditis and include elevations in white blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and serum C-reactive protein concentration ...

A 41-year-old outdoor workman was admitted to the Jefferson Davis Hospital on April 27, 1963, because of progressive breathlessness. He had been well until 3 months previously, when anorexia, retching ...