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==Overview== | |||
==Natural History== | |||
==Compications== | ==Compications== | ||
* Only symptomatic pleural effusions or effusions larger than 50% of hemithorax require thoracentesis or chest tube drainage. | * Only symptomatic pleural effusions or effusions larger than 50% of [[hemithorax]] require [[thoracentesis]] or [[chest tube]] drainage. | ||
* Most resolve spontaneously. | * Most resolve spontaneously. | ||
* Postcardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) | * [[Postcardiac injury syndrome]] (PCIS) | ||
*:* A general term for fever and pleuropericardial disease days or months after cardiac injury (myocardial infarction or surgery). | *:* A general term for fever and [[pleuropericardial]] disease days or months after cardiac injury ([[myocardial infarction]] or surgery). | ||
*:* Typically present two to three weeks post op. | *:* Typically present two to three weeks post op. | ||
*:*:* Chest pain | *:*:* Chest pain | ||
*:*:* Pericardial rub | *:*:* [[Pericardial rub]] | ||
*:*:* Fever | *:*:* Fever | ||
*:*:* Leukocytosis | *:*:* [[Leukocytosis]] | ||
*:*:* Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) | *:*:* Elevated [[erythrocyte sedimentation rate]] (ESR) | ||
*:*:* Variable combinations of pulmonary effusions and infiltrates. | *:*:* Variable combinations of pulmonary effusions and infiltrates. | ||
==Prognosis== | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Overview
Natural History
Compications
- Only symptomatic pleural effusions or effusions larger than 50% of hemithorax require thoracentesis or chest tube drainage.
- Most resolve spontaneously.
- Postcardiac injury syndrome (PCIS)
- A general term for fever and pleuropericardial disease days or months after cardiac injury (myocardial infarction or surgery).
- Typically present two to three weeks post op.
- Chest pain
- Pericardial rub
- Fever
- Leukocytosis
- Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
- Variable combinations of pulmonary effusions and infiltrates.