Urgent coronary artery bypass surgery in the presence of Dressler's syndrome.
The clinical features of Dressler's syndrome which developed in a patient following a third myocardial infarction responded to a short course of prednisolone. However, angina at rest precipitated urgent coronary artery bypass surgery and pericardectomy.
D000328:Adult; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000601:surgery*; D000789:Angina, Unstable / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005334:Fever / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D010146:Pain / Q000601:surgery*; D010496:Pericardium; D010994:Pleura; D013577:Syndrome