Dressler syndrome: A group of symptoms that can occur days, weeks or months after a heart attack or heart surgery. The symptoms may be due to such things as autoimmune processes, virus or bleeding around the heart which can result in inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Dressler syndrome is available below.
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Dressler syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Dressler syndrome, or a subtype of Dressler syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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