How do you approach management of recurrent idiopathic pleuropericarditis?
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Cardiology · NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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The first line is colchicine and NSAIDs until the pain resolves, CRP normalizes, etc…
After this, if the CRP tracks with the symptoms, fluid reaccumulation, and/or cMRI evidence of the pericarditis, I find il-1 inhibitors work very well.
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