Postmyocardial infarction syndrome (PMIS) (medical condition): A group of symptoms that can occur days, weeks or months after a heart attack or heart surgery. The symptoms may be due to such things as autoimmune processes, virus or bleeding around the heart which can result in inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart.
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Dressler syndrome:
»Introduction: Dressler syndrome
»Symptoms of Dressler syndrome
»Treatments for Dressler syndrome
Postmyocardial infarction syndrome (PMIS): a complication developing several days to several weeks after myocardial infarction; its clinical features are fever, leukocytosis, chest pain, and evidence of pericarditis, sometimes with pleurisy and pneumonitis, with a strong tendency to recurrence; probably of immunopathogenetic origin.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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Postmyocardial infarction syndrome (PMIS): Another name for Dressler syndrome (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Dressler syndrome
»Symptoms of Dressler syndrome
»Treatments for Dressler syndrome
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