Pericarditis causes

Overview
Pericarditis can present as a disorder primarily involving the pericardium (e.g viral etiologies), as manifestation of a systemic illness (e.g. autoimmune illnesses), or as a manifestation of a disorder involving an adjacent anatomic structure (e.g. cancer).

===Common Causes of Pericarditis ===


 * (35%) Neoplastic
 * (23%) Autoimmune
 * (21%) Viral - adenovirus, enterovirus, influenza virus etc.
 * ( 6%) Bacterial (other than tuberculosis)
 * ( 6%) Uremia
 * ( 4%) Tuberculosis
 * ( 4%) Idiopathic
 * (remaining) trauma, drugs, post-AMI, myocarditis, dissecting aortic aneurysm, radiation

Complete Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of Pericarditis
(By organ system)

Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Acute Pericarditis
In alphabetical order:


 * Actinomycosis
 * Acute idiopathic pericarditis
 * Acute rheumatic fever
 * Adenovirus
 * Addison's crisis
 * Amyloidosis
 * Amebiasis
 * Ankylosing Spondylitis
 * Aortic dissection
 * Behcet's Disease
 * Borrelia
 * Breast cancer
 * Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
 * Chylopericardium
 * Coxsackie A
 * Coxsackie B
 * Cytomegalovirus
 * Dermatomyositis
 * Dermatosclerosis
 * Dressler's Syndrome
 * EBV
 * ECHO virus
 * Echinococcosis
 * Familial Mediterranian Fever
 * Francisella
 * HIV
 * Infectious mononucleosis
 * Inflammatory Bowel Disease
 * Influenza virus
 * Kawasaki disease
 * Legionella
 * Leukemia
 * Lung cancer
 * Lymphoma
 * Meningococci
 * Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
 * Mumps virus
 * Mycoplasma infection
 * Neisseria gonorrhoeae
 * Perforated esophagus
 * Pneumococci
 * Polyarteritis Nodosa
 * Polymyositis
 * Postpericardiotomy syndrome
 * Reiter's Syndrome
 * Radiation therapy
 * Renal Failure
 * Rheumatoid Arthritis
 * Rickettsia
 * Sarcoidosis
 * Scleroderma
 * Serum sickness
 * Staphylococci
 * Streptococci
 * Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
 * Thorax trauma
 * Treponema pallidum
 * Toxoplasmosis
 * Tuberculosis
 * Uremia
 * Varicella virus
 * Wegener's granulomatosis
 * Whipple's Disease

Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Chronic Pericarditis
In alphabetical order:


 * Amebiasis
 * Bacterial infections
 * Cholesterol pericarditis
 * Chylopericardium
 * Coccidioidomycosis
 * Collagen Vascular Disease
 * Coxsackie B
 * Echinococcosis
 * Histoplasmosis
 * Neoplastic pericarditis
 * Tuberculosis
 * Uremic pericarditis