[Early postinfarct syndrome occurring with paralysis of the recurrent nerve]

A brief literature survey is presented in the paper on the incidence, etiology and nature of postinfarction syndrome. Postinfarction syndrome was emphasized to be associated with the processes of autoallergization of organism to the products of cardiac muscle necrosis. A postinfarction syndrome is described that developed in a 32-year patient with extensive anterior transmural infarction--high temperature on the third day, continuous pain behind the sternum, pericardial friction, rash on both hands, accompanied by paresis of left n. recurrens. After the corticosteroids treatment, the symptoma abated within several days and recovery of the voice was possible after the fifteenth day.