Key result
Total pericardiectomy during CABG resolves symptoms in a patient with early post-Dressler constrictive pericarditis.
Total pericardiectomy during CABG successfully resolved symptoms of early constrictive pericarditis secondary to Dressler's syndrome.
Offers anecdotal support for pericardiectomy during CABG in post-Dressler cases; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Early constrictive pericarditis and anaemia developed in a 52 year old man after he had an inferior wall myocardial infarction complicated by Dressler's syndrome. Total pericardiectomy at the time of coronary artery bypass surgery resulted in complete resolution of signs and symptoms.
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Cheung et al. (1991) studied this question. Total pericardiectomy during coronary artery bypass surgery completely resolved signs and symptoms in a patient with early constrictive pericarditis and anemia after Dressler's syndrome.
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