Dressler's syndrome presenting as acute pneumonitis.
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.
Gallen
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Department of Diabetes Medicine, University Hospital, Nottingham.
Johnston
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Tattersall
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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