Pericardiotomy syndrome

Post-pericardiotomy syndrome (post pericardiotomy syndrome) refers to clinical symptoms such as fever, pericarditis, and pleurisy after one week of cardiac surgery. This syndrome first occurs in patients with mitral valve surgery for rheumatic heart disease, which is thought to be a recurrence of rheumatic fever. Subsequently, this syndrome also occurs in patients with non-rheumatic heart disease after cardiac surgery. The clinical manifestations of the pericardial incision syndrome can also occur when an implanted pacemaker catheter causes cardiac perforation, blunt chest contusion, epicardial implantation of a pacemaker, and coronary angioplasty due to coronary angioplasty. feature. The incidence of syndrome after pericardiotomy is 10% to 40%, and the incidence is higher in children than in adults. Recurrence occurs in 5% of patients within the first 3 months after surgery.