Post Heart Attack Symptoms
Dressler syndrome; Post-MI pericarditis; Post-cardiac injury syndrome; Postcardiotomy pericarditis
Symptoms
Anxiety -
Chest pain - May come and go (recur)
- Pain may be sharp and stabbing (pleuritic) or tight and crushing (ischemic)
- Pain may get worse when breathing and may go away when you stand or sit up
- Pain moves to the neck, shoulder, back, or abdomen
Difficulty breathing - Dry
cough -
Fast heart rate (tachycardia) Fatigue -
Fever (more common with the second type of pericarditis) -
Malaise (general...
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