Pericarditis after myocardial infarction
There are two forms of pericarditis after myocardial infarction. One is the acute pericardial inflammation often associated with acute myocardial infarction, especially transmural infarction, called postmyocardial infarction pericarditis, which occurs 2 hours to 5 days after the infarction, and usually occurs within 10 days.
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