Social death. Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. Used by sociologists like Zygmunt Bauman and historians of slavery and the Holocaust to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process. Examples of social death are:
Chronic pericarditis often causes tiredness, coughing, and shortness of breath. Chest pain often is absent in this type of pericarditis. Severe cases of chronic pericarditis can lead to swelling in the stomach and legs and hypotension (low blood pressure).
Many of the same infections that cause myocarditis can cause pericarditis as well, and the two often appear together. In addition to the infectious causes of pericarditis, heart surgery or a heart attack * can lead to an inflamed pericardium and accumulation of fluid around the heart.