Postcardiotomy syndrome

Definition

Postcardiotomy syndrome is a hypersensitivity reaction to antigen derived from injured myocardium 3 weeks to 2 months after myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery, or penetrating and non penetrating heart injury. The diagnosis is made by history of heart injury, and exclusion of other diseases such as congestive heart failure, recurrent myocardial infarction, endocarditis, myocarditis, and pericarditis.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Postprocedural disorders of circulatory system

• BE11Other functional disturbances following cardiac surgery
• BE12Postprocedural valve disorders
• BE13Postprocedural true or false aortic aneurysm
• BE14Postprocedural disorder of circulatory system following repair of congenital heart or great vessel anomaly
• BE15Postprocedural pulmonary arterial tree disorder
• BE16Postprocedural pulmonary venous disorder
• BE17Postprocedural residual or recurrent interatrial communication
• BE19Postprocedural ventricular abnormality