| Dressler syndrome | |
|---|---|
| Specialty | Cardiology  |
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 consists of fever, pleuritic pain, pericarditis and/or pericardial effusion.
Dressler syndrome is also known as postmyocardial infarction syndrome[1] and the term is sometimes used to refer to post-pericardiotomy pericarditis.
It was first characterized by William Dressler at Maimonides Medical Center in 1956.[2][3][4]
It should not be confused with Dressler's syndrome of haemoglobinuria named for Lucas Dressler, who characterized it in 1854.[5][6]
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- ^ Bendjelid K, Pugin J (November 2004). "Is Dressler syndrome dead?". Chest. 126 (5): 1680–2. doi:10.1378/chest.126.5.1680. PMID 15539743.
- ^ Streifler J, Pitlik S, Dux S, et al. (April 1984). "Dressler's syndrome after right ventricular infarction". Postgrad Med J. 60 (702): 298–300. doi:10.1136/pgmj.60.702.298. PMC 2417818. PMID 6728756.
- ^ Dressler W (January 1959). "The post-myocardial-infarction syndrome: a report on forty-four cases". Arch Intern Med. 103 (1): 28–42. doi:10.1001/archinte.1959.00270010034006. PMID 13605300.
- ^ synd/3982 at Who Named It?
- ^ Dressler, L. A. (1854). "Ein Fall von intermittierender Albuminurie und Chromaturie" [A case of intermittent albuminuria and chromaturia]. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin (in German). 6: 264–6. hdl:2027/hvd.32044093329910.