Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease are susceptible to two types of pericarditis. Uremic pericarditis occurs in patients who have not begun dialysis or who are within 8 weeks of dialysis initiation. Dialysis-associated pericarditis occurs in patients who are at least 8 weeks into dialysis treatment. 

The clinical features of pericarditis in these patients are similar to those with other causes of pericarditis. However, the classic ECG findings of pericarditis are less commonly seen in patients with chronic kidney disease.