[Recurrent delayed pericarditis after pacemaker implantation: a post-pericardiotomy-like syndrome?].
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.
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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
Sagnol
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Buttard
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Laurent
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Wolf
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Dellinger
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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
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents