CRP and infective endocarditis: Moreover, increased hsCRP titers were highlighted as a possible predictor for the prognosis of infective endocarditis and idiopathic recurrent pericarditis, and importantly, old data indicate that CRP increases in the pericardial fluid related to an “agonal pericarditis”, which may result from an agonal myocardial necrosis [240,241,242,243].