title: Dressler's syndrome presenting as acute pneumonitis.
abstract: An elderly man developed acute pneumonitis three weeks after a myocardial infarction treated with streptokinase. The differential diagnoses are discussed and a short review of lung disease in the post-myocardial infarction syndrome is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diabetes Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham.
authors.forename: I W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Gallen
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Tattersall
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011859:Radiography