Meet the editors

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He has edited 17 books and is author or co-author of 1727 papers or book chapters, 610 commentaries, 47 Letters to the Editor, and 1137 abstracts. He has also presented or co-presented 1510 talks at meetings. He is

a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the America Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC), the AGS (Founding Fellow of Western Section) , and the GSA. He has been an editorial board member for 179 medical journals. He has been a member of four national guidelines committees including the 2010 AMDA guidelines for heart failure, the 2011 ACC/AHA expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly, the 2015 AHA/ACC/ASH scientific statement on treatment of hypertension in patients with coronary artery disease, and the 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with hypertension.

Takashi Murashita, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. Dr. Murashita received his MD from Kyoto University Medical School, Japan. His main interest is cardiac surgery, and he is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgery, Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society, and Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. He has published 52 papers in peer-reviewed

journals and nine book chapters in open access journals. He has been an editorial board member for two medical journals and an ad-hoc manuscript reviewer for fifteen medical journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Takashi Murashita*

Tuberculous Pericarditis *by Picco José Miguel*

*by Ing Xiang Soo*

*by Michelle Correia*

**Section 2**

Pericardial Diseases in Elderly Patients

Diagnosis, and Surgical Treatment *by Koffi Herve Yangni-Angate*

*by Ammar Athar, Kartik Dhaduk and Wilbert S. Aronow*

Pericardial Diseases: Surgery for Pericardial Effusion

Anaesthesia for Patients with Pericardial Disease

Inflammation and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy

**Preface III**

Pericarditis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 67**

Cardiomyopathies **95**

**Chapter 7 97**

*by Manal M.A. Smail, Chris F. Howarth, Jaipaul Singh and Abla Mohamed Ismail*

Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis (CCP) in Africa: Epidemiology, Etiology,

Prologue: Introduction to Advanced Concepts in Pericardial Disease
