title: [Recurrent delayed pericarditis after pacemaker implantation: a post-pericardiotomy-like syndrome?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pacemaker implantation is a usual technique in cardiology which may be followed by acute pleural effusion and delayed unusual pericarditis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reported the case of a 67 year-old man hospitalized for faintness. Rhythmical auricular disease was diagnosed and pacemaker was implanted without immediate complication. Though pericarditis with tamponade at the day 21 will require emergency pericardiotomy surgery. A recurrent pericarditis at day 45 was treated with anti-inflammatory drugs without relapse at the end of the treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Repeated delayed pericarditis after pacemaker surgery may be compared to the Dressler syndrome which occurs after myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne et immunologie, complexe Bocage, CHU, 10, boulevard Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, BP 77908, 21079 Dijon cedex, France. levine_julien@yahoo.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vinit
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sagnol
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buttard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Laurent
authors.forename: J-E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dellinger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006327:Heart Block / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D011185:Postpericardiotomy Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents