Recurrent Pericarditis for Professionals
Recurrent Pericarditis
Recurrent pericarditis is a common complication after an initial episode of acute pericarditis, characterized by the recurrence of chest pain and signs of cardiovascular inflammation. Recurrent pericarditis presents major short-term and long-term challenges for clinicians and patients alike.
The impact of recurrent pericarditis often extends beyond cardiac effects, with general uncertainty of each recurrence triggering anxiety, depression, and disruption in overall quality of life.
Recurrent Pericarditis: A Toolkit for Health Care Professionals
The toolkit provides health care professionals with essential knowledge, skills, and practical guidance to confidently manage acute and recurrent pericarditis. It offers up to date evidence, step by step strategies, and expert insights to support improved patient outcomes. Updated February 2026.
OnDemand Videos
Recurrent Pericarditis: Practical and Surgical Management
This expert-led video covers recurrent pericarditis management, emphasizing IL-1’s role in inflammation and recurrence, treatment strategies—including cardiac surgery—and a patient’s journey.
Acute Pericarditis: A Practical Approach to Diagnostic Evaluation & Initial Management
Enhance your understanding and skills in diagnosing and managing acute pericarditis with our on-demand video, available for healthcare professionals.
Special Topics in Recurrent Pericarditis: Recognize and Manage Refractory Disease
This webinar will explore the features of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases as a paradigm for IL-1 mediated recurrent pericarditis.
Acute Pericarditis: Recognition, Initial Management, and Preventing Recurrence
This webinar reviews pericarditis diagnosis, risk stratification, treatment strategies, and practical pharmacology for management and recurrence prevention.
Recurrent Pericarditis: Epidemiology, Presentation, Pathophysiology, and Diagnostic Testing
This webinar provides key takeaways for initial diagnosis and clinical evaluation strategies in recurrent pericarditis.HeartBEATS from Lifelong Learning™
Navigating Recurrent Pericarditis: Shared Decision Making and Patient Stories
This vodcast explores recurrent pericarditis through expert insights and patient stories, highlighting shared decision-making and offering practical advice for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
Conventional Approaches to Managing Recurrent Pericarditis
Around 40,000 U.S. patients seek treatment for recurrent pericarditis. This vodcast deepens understanding of guidelines, advances, and best practices, including conventional treatment approaches.
IL-1 Blockade – Rationale, Evidence Base, and Practical Clinical Pharmacology
This vodcast helps healthcare professionals understand current guidelines, science, and best practices for managing recurrent pericarditis, focusing on IL-1 blockade, supporting evidence, and clinical pharmacology to improve patient outcomes.
Clinical Evaluation and Diagnostic Assessment
In this episode, experts explore the diagnosis of acute pericarditis, highlighting key factors that influence patient care and support effective management.
Management and Pharmacological Strategies
In this episode, experts discuss the initial pharmacologic management of acute pericarditis, offering practical insights to enhance your clinical skills.
Podcasts
Long Term Complications of Recurrent Pericarditis
Identifying the cause during history-taking is key. In developed countries, constrictive pericarditis is usually idiopathic or post–cardiac surgery, while tuberculosis predominates in developing regions and immunosuppressed patients. This podcast reviews diagnosis, evaluation, and management of recurrent pericarditis and its long-term complications. Listen now!
Recurrent Pericarditis in Systemic Autoinflammatory and Autoimmune Disease – Clinical Recognition and Management
In this podcast, experts review the diagnosis and clinical features of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases that can present with recurrent pericarditis, along with autoimmune conditions complicated by pericarditis, how to recognize them, and when to seek specialist input. Listen now!
Recurrent Pericarditis: The Role of IL-1 Blockade
In 2021, the FDA-approved Rilonacept to treat recurrent pericarditis and reduce the risk of recurrence. In this podcast learn more about the role interleukin-1 (IL-1) plays in the pathophysiology of pericarditis. Listen Now!
Pathophysiology of Recurrent Pericarditis
Listen to this podcast to better understand the triggers causing recurrent episodes of pericarditis. Experts discuss how to assess those triggers to direct optimal therapy.
Beyond Acute – Recurrent Pericarditis
In this podcast, Forouzandeh, Lin, and Di Palo discuss the initial management of recurrent pericarditis, including how to distinguish it from acute pericarditis, key diagnostic criteria, and first-line pharmacotherapy. Listen now for practical strategies to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
Treatment of Acute Pericarditis
In this podcast, Drs. Tevfik Ismail, Antonio Brucato, and Robert Barcelona will focus on the treatment of acute pericarditis and review the relevant clinical pharmacology of the agents used.
Complications of Acute Pericarditis
Learn more in this podcast on the causes, complications and treatments of acute pericarditis and explore how to prevent an initial episode of acute pericarditis from evolving into recurrent pericarditis.
What is Acute Pericarditis: Signs and Signals
Pericarditis is inflammation of the fibroelastic pericardial sac. Acute pericarditis has been observed in ≈0.1% of hospitalized patients and 5% of patients admitted to the emergency department with a diagnosis of noncardiac chest pain. In this podcast, learn the clinical features of Acute Pericarditis.
Addressing Recurrent Pericarditis
Join us for a webinar hosted by the American Heart Association, featuring Dr. Sarah Kohnstamm, MD, FACC, as she discusses the Addressing Recurrent Pericarditis initiative, participating sites, and challenges in assessing and diagnosing recurrent pericarditis.
Guidelines and Articles
- 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (PDF)
- Cardiovascular Disease and Breast Cancer: Where These Entities Intersect: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2018;137:e30–e66.
- ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation - Full Text. Circulation. 2006;114:e257–e354.