The first post-cardiac injury syndrome reported following transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-cardiac injury syndrome is a form of secondary pericarditis with or without pericardial effusion, which typically occurs weeks to months following an injury to the heart or pericardium. Disease activity can be followed with serial testing of inflammatory markers e.g. C-reactive protein (CRP) and/or sedimentation rate, electrocardiogram, and echocardiography.

Case summary

A 79-year-old woman was admitted with chest pain, dyspnoea at rest, cough, and low degree fever. The patient had undergone transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) 6 months before admission. Inflammatory markers were increased and a chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) showed a minimal left pleural effusion. An empirical antibiotic treatment and ibuprofen to control chest pain were

SUBMITTER: Llubani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6426006 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature