H. capsulatum: A Not-So-Benign Cause of Pericarditis

Table 2

Etiology of acute pericarditis: data from 3 large case series.

	Permanyer-Miralda et al. ( = 231)	Zayas et al. ( = 100)	Imazio et al. ( = 453)
Years	1977–1983	1991–1993	1996–2004
Location	Spain	Spain	Italy
Idiopathic	199	78	377
Specific etiology	32 (14%)	22 (22%)	76 (16.8%)
Neoplastic	12	7	23
Tuberculosis	9	4	17
Autoimmune	4	3	33
Purulent	2	1	3

Data from [7–9].