Open AccessA presentation of postcardiac injury syndrome after successful chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention using dissection re‐entry techniques
Author(s) -
ElbazGreener Gabby,
Wijeysundera Harindra C.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.955
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous coronary intervention , coronary occlusion , acute coronary syndrome , presentation (obstetrics) , intervention (counseling) , surgery , dissection (medical) , occlusion , myocardial infarction , cardiology , psychiatry
Key Clinical Message Retrograde dissection re‐entry can cause pericardial trauma of sufficient degree to lead to the development of an auto‐immune postpericardial injury syndrome. Clinical suspicion for this condition should be high in the event of fever, symptoms, pericardial/pleural effusion, and pleuritic chest pain following chronic total occlusion ( CTO ) Post cardiac injury syndromes ( PCI ).