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Dressler syndrome is a secondary form of pericarditis that occurs in the setting of injury to the heart or the pericardium (the outer lining of the heart). It ...
Dressler's syndrome [4] Peri-Myocardial Infarction Pericarditis [16] Trauma to the heart [4] Uremia (uremic pericarditis) [4] Cancer [4] Side effect of some medications, e.g. isoniazid, cyclosporine, hydralazine, warfarin, and heparin; Radiation induced [4] Aortic dissection [4] Postpericardiotomy syndrome—such as after CABG surgery [4]
Although no current drug on the market prevents post-pericardiotomy syndrome, colchicine seems to provide an effective and safe way to treat pericarditis by reducing inflammation. [6] Colchicine is a natural product extracted from plants, and is a secondary metabolite (an organic compound not directly related to growth and development in an ...
Cardiac injury syndromes: Heart surgery [7] (postpericardiotomy syndrome), post-myocardial infarction (Dressler's syndrome), coronary interventions such as drug eluting stents. Post-cardiac surgery pericardial effusions contribute to 54% of total effusions in the pediatric population.
Dressler syndrome – A form of pericarditis that develops 2–3 weeks after myocardial infarction and is accompanied by fever, pleuritic chest pain, and symptoms of pericarditis. Pericardial effusion – The serous pericardium normally contains fluid that reduces friction, but an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pericardium is called a ...
The symptoms of DRESS syndrome usually begin 2 to 6 weeks but uncommonly up to 8–16 weeks after exposure to an offending drug. Symptoms generally include fever, an often itchy rash which may be morbilliform or consist mainly of macules or plaques, facial edema (i.e. swelling, which is a hallmark of the disease), enlarged and sometimes painful lymph nodes, and other symptoms due to ...
Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. But Smith, who said he had snowmobiled on the trail more than 100 times ...
3D still showing normal heart vs heart failure. A myocardial infarction may compromise the function of the heart as a pump for the circulation, a state called heart failure. There are different types of heart failure; left- or right-sided (or bilateral) heart failure may occur depending on the affected part of the heart, and it is a low-output ...