Causes
- Pericarditis
- Long term usage of cabergoline ingredient (dopamine agonists)
- Viral infection (coxsackie virus)
- Infection
- Inflammatory disorders, such as lupus and post myocardial infarction pericarditis (Dressler's syndrome)
- Cancer that has spread to the pericardium
- Trichinosis
- Kidney failure with excessive blood levels of urea nitrogen
- Minoxidil
- Hypothyroidism
- Heart surgery (postpericardotomy syndrome)
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