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Rakesh Shrivastava1, S Venkatesh, B B Pavlovich
1Department of Internal Medicine, Park Ridge Hospital, 1555 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY 14626, USA. rs243@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Post-cardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) is an inflammatory process involving pleura and pericardium secondary to cardiac injury. Even though this clinical entity has been recognised for decades, diagnosis is difficult because of lack of a diagnostic test. Antimyocardial antibody titre in pleural fluid and serum has been proposed to have diagnostic value. However there are inherent difficulties in measuring and interpreting the role of antimyocardial antibody. A case of PCIS with low pleural fluid complement level is reported, which it is believed can be useful to support the diagnosis of PCIS.
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