pericarditis

pericardium disease that is characterized by an inflammation of the pericardium and has symptom chest pain
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q501561
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Summary

pericarditis is a class of disease[1]. pericarditis ranks in the top 9% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,064 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: pericardium disease[3], inflammation[4], inflammatory disease[5], heart disease[6], disease[7]
  • Commons category: Pericarditis[8]
  • Afflicts: pericardium[9]
  • Symptoms and signs: inflammation[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C34915[12]
  • Health specialty: cardiology[13]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: anakinra[14], (S)-(−)-colchicine[15]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1787[16], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1787[17], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001701[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[19]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/pericarditis[20]

Why It Matters

pericarditis has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] pericarditis is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Recurrent Pericarditis in Children and Adolescents. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → pericardium disease, inflammation, inflammatory disease +2
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty → cardiology
    Afflicts → pericardium
    Symptoms and signs → inflammation
    Instance of → class of disease
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007536194505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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