Cardiology · Cardiology / Pericardial disease
Post-pericardiotomy syndrome
also: Postcardiotomy syndrome
Pericarditis weeks after cardiac surgery.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Pericardial disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Postcardiotomy syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Autoimmune response to pericardial injury.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
In plain terms, someone with Post-pericardiotomy syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Overlapping symptoms
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Shares symptoms with
4 shared
Dressler syndrome
fever, friction rub, pericardial effusion, pleuritic chest pain
2 shared
Organic dust toxic syndrome
fever, malaise
2 shared
Sweet syndrome
fever, malaise
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
1 shared
Camptodactyly–arthropathy–coxa vara–pericarditis syndrome
pericardial effusion
1 shared
Cantú syndrome
pericardial effusion
Shares genes with
None.
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