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The Postmyocardial Infarction Syndrome Vanished or Vanquished? A Twenty-Five-Year Follow-up A Case Report

Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn

Alan F. Lyon, M.D.

Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn

Although the existence of the postmyocardial infarction syndrome has now long been questioned, the Dressler symptom complex remains widely accepted as a distinct clinical entity. A patient is described whose twenty-five-year follow-up adds to our argument that there is no late or separate multisystem autoimmune disease following acute myocardial infarction. It is suggested that the Dressler complex is an entity that has neither vanished nor been vanquished but one that may never have existed.

Angiology, Vol. 47, No. 1, 83-85 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979604700113


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