Abstract
A 44-year-old man sustained a transmural inferolateral myocardial infarction and began to show signs of postmyocardial infarction syndrome (Dressler's syndrome) one week after infarction. Anticoagulant therapy had been initiated for suspected pulmonary thromboembolism. Administration of steroids did not improve the patient's clinical condition or the results of laboratory investigations. A massive pericardial effusion was diagnosed clinically, and this diagnosis was confirmed by a pericardial scan using 99m technetium. Subsequently, 1,800 ml of bloody fluid was removed from the pericardial cavity, and following the pericardiocentesis, the patient became asymptomtic. This case reemphasizes the hazards of anticoagulant therapy in patients with the postmyocardial infarction syndrome.
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