What is the etiology of Dressler Syndrome?: (A) Viral, (B) Autoimmune, (C) Idiopathic, (D) Toxin-mediated
Answer is B. Dressler syndrome Autoimmune process. Post-pericardiotomy syndrome following myocardial infarction Unusual complication after percutaneous procedures such as coronary stent implantation, after implantation of epicardial pacemaker leads and transvenous pacemaker leads, and following blunt trauma, stab wounds, and hea puncture. Involves the pleura and pericardium