Differential Diagnosis
In the setting of myocardial infarction, Dressler's syndrome occurs in about 7% of cases, and typically occurs 2–3 weeks post-myocardial infarction. Dressler's syndome is also known as post-myocardial infarction syndrome, post-cardiac injury syndrome and postpericardiotomy syndrome. Dressler's syndrome needs to be differentiated from pulmonary embolism, another identifiable cause of pleuritic (and non-pleuritic) chest pain in people who have been hospitalized and/or undergone surgical procedures within the preceding weeks.
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