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Dressler’s Syndrome

Thank you Dr. McCutcheon for an excellent case and presentation on Dressler’s Syndrome

Teaching Points

  • Post MI complications: electrical, mechanical, ischemic, shock, pericaditis, post infarction angina
  • Electrical: accelerated idioventricular rhythm, ventricular arrhythmias, bradycardia, heart blocks, intraventricular blocks
  • Mechanical: papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture, ventricular septal rupture, free wall rupture
  • Dressler’s syndrome:  immune mediated pericarditis in response to the damage to heart tissue or to the pericardium, from events such as a heart attack, surgery or traumatic injury

PowerPoint: Daily Report 09-14-2016

Further Reading
Colchicine in addition to conventional therapy for acute pericarditis

 

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