Population
20 patients scheduled to undergo elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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AHA emerge after PPS onset, arguing against causal role; hypothesis-generating for larger prospective cohorts.
Anti-heart antibodies appear after the clinical onset of postpericardiotomy syndrome, suggesting they are an epiphenomenon of myocardial/pericardial injury rather than the underlying cause.
Hoffman et al. (2002) studied this question.
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