Sometimes years intervene between the early manifestations and the more serious signs of systemic involvement, which may include difficulty in breathing or swallowing, gastrointestinal disorders, kidney malfunction, and inflammation of the heart lining, heart muscle, or sac enclosing the heart.
Pericarditis and myocarditis, inflammation of the sac enclosing the heart and of the heart muscle, are caused by a variety of infectious agents; they may result from systemic diseases.
In some instances, the details were enclosed within hearts, a decorative flourish that Dr. Bellantoni had seen at only one other Connecticut burial at a grave dated 1818 in Cornwall.
Hearts were maintained at 37°C throughout the experiment by enclosing the heart in a temperature-regulated double-glass chamber.
Decapods, for example, have a special organ located in the walls of the pericardium, enclosing the heart; the pericardial organ secretes a substance, perhaps a polypeptide neurohormone, that accelerates the heartbeat.
Pericarditis, inflammation of the pericardium, the membranous sac that encloses the heart.
But it's hard to use video to effective, rather than decorative, ends, and their new "Pericardium" (the name for the multilayered membrane enclosing the heart), performed on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo, doesn't succeed any better than most.
Eventually, the promenade brought us to the square, its elegant colonnades home to smart restaurants: the best of them, in Célia's opinion, is Populi which, according to its website offers "wine that encloses the heart, beer that undresses the soul, champagne that chills the throat, and gin that rips through life".
On Monday, Governor Calderon will release the findings of the study that presents preliminary evidence that the Navy training exercises may be causing vibroacoustic disease, a recently identified syndrome that can be detected by a thickening of the membrane that encloses the heart.
A large vein, the azygos, which receives oxygen-poor blood from the chest wall and the bronchi, opens into the superior vena cava close to the point at which the latter passes through the pericardium, the sac that encloses the heart.
