Dressler syndrome following pulmonary embolism
Elikowski, W.; Małek, M.łg.; Wróblewski, D.; Kaszkowiak, E.; Kłos, A.
Kardiologia Polska 67(4): 424-428; Discussion 429
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9032 PMID: 19492257 Document Number: 636485
A case of a 73-year-old woman with fibrinous pericardial effusion which developed four weeks following severe pulmonary embolism. Clinical and echocardiographic data as well as an inclination to self-limited course were suggestive of Dressler syndrome diagnosis. Although there were no data that oral vitamin K antagonist use was involved in presented pericardial syndrome, pericardial effusion size required its temporary substitution by heparin.