The postcardiac injury syndrome: Case report and review of the literature

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-314

  Wessman, Dylan E ^a   Stafford, Christopher M ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dressler syndrome; Postcardiac injury syndrome; Postcommissurotomy syndrome; Postmyocardial infarction syndrome; Postpericardiotomy syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETAXOLOL; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEART ANTIBODY; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRESSLER SYNDROME; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEVER; GLAUCOMA; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALAISE; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POSTCARDIAC INJURY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 33645106771     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.smj.0000203330.15503.0b     Document Type: Article

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