A condition that can occur following a myocardial infarction or heart surgery.
A group of symptoms that can occur days, weeks or months after a heart attack or heart surgery.
Usually develops several days to several weeks after a heart attack.
Associated wirh inflammation of the pericardium.
Thought to be an autoimmune disease.
A secondary form of pericarditis that occurs in the setting of injury to the heart or the pericardium.
Also known as postmyocardial infarction syndrome and post-pericardiotomy pericarditis syndrome.
Symptoms include chest pain, much like that experienced during a heart attack, and fever.
Less common than it used to be, but may recur.
Also known as postpericardiotomy, post-myocardial infarction syndrome and post-cardiac injury syndrome.
Largely a self limiting disease that very rarely leads to pericardial tamponade.
Syndrome consists of a persistent low-grade fever, pleuritic chest pain, a pericardial friction rub, and /or a pericardial effusion.
The symptoms tend to subside in a few days.
An elevated ESR is an objective laboratory finding.
Suspected to result from an autoimmune inflammatory reaction to myocardial neo-antigens.
In the setting of myocardial infarction, occurs in about 7% of cases.
Typically treated with NSAIDs such as aspirin or with corticosteroids.
Corticosteroids are reserved for rare cases and are seldom required.