Background: Postmyocardial Infarction Syndrome (PMIS), also called Dressler syndrome or Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome, refers to a heterogeneous group of autoimmune-mediated conditions of pericardial, epicardial and myocardial inflammation following myocardial infarction. Generally considered to be rare in the reperfusion era, the features and risk factors of PMIS are less well characterized in the contemporary era. This study […]

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old woman with a history of asthma presented with progressive shortness of breath and acute onset chest pain. Following a severe asthma exacerbation, she reported increasing dyspnea on exertion that slowly worsened over the subsequent 2 weeks, which she attributed to her asthma. On the day of presentation, she reported mild, asthma […]