Thank you Dr. McCutcheon for an excellent case and presentation on Dressler’s Syndrome
Teaching Points
- Post MI complications: electrical, mechanical, ischemic, shock, pericaditis, post infarction angina
- Electrical: accelerated idioventricular rhythm, ventricular arrhythmias, bradycardia, heart blocks, intraventricular blocks
- Mechanical: papillary muscle dysfunction/rupture, ventricular septal rupture, free wall rupture
- Dressler’s syndrome: immune mediated pericarditis in response to the damage to heart tissue or to the pericardium, from events such as a heart attack, surgery or traumatic injury
PowerPoint: Daily Report 09-14-2016
Further Reading
Colchicine in addition to conventional therapy for acute pericarditis