Cardiology · Cardiology / Pericardial disease
Dressler syndrome
also: Post-myocardial infarction syndrome; postpericardiotomy syndrome
Pericarditis occurring weeks after myocardial infarction or cardiac surgery.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Pericardial disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes, after cardiac surgery
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Post-myocardial infarction syndrome; postpericardiotomy syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Autoimmune response to myocardial antigens.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (7)
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Same gene(s)
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Shares symptoms with
4 shared
Post-pericardiotomy syndrome
fever, friction rub, pericardial effusion, pleuritic chest pain
2 shared
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arthralgia, fever
2 shared
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arthralgia, fever
2 shared
Schnitzler syndrome
arthralgia, fever
2 shared
Sweet syndrome
arthralgia, fever
1 shared
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
fever
1 shared
Acute chest syndrome
fever
1 shared
Antisynthetase syndrome
fever
1 shared
Behçet-like haploinsufficiency of A20 syndrome
fever
1 shared
Boerhaave syndrome
fever
Shares genes with
None.
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