Pericarditis and pericardial effusion

Hi. I got my PM on 6/12/13 and have just spent another week in hospital with diagnosis of pericarditis and pericardial effusion (which has occurred due to an incident during PM insertion). I'm on steroids and anti inflammation meds and going to have weekly echocardiograms.i have symptoms.wondering if anyone else has had this and if so what symptoms did you have and how long did it take for symptoms to pass?

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Pericarditis

by donb - 2014-01-04 06:01:19

As I'm a patient who had this problem shortly after a routine Lexiscan stress test. I was not given an echocardiogram as I wanted before my stress test. Immediately following my stress test I felt lousy, started leg swelling & was put on the same meds as you. Finally I insisted on my GP to schedule an Echo. This showed lots of fluid in my pericardial sack. Immediately I was scheduled for a Pericardial Window surgery which resulted removing 300cc of fluid & another 100cc drainage in the 5 days while in the hospital.
As every case is not as complicated but my Kidneys bogged down along with my Liver enzymes were also bad. I had 5 Drs' involved (Wife Nurse worked Cardiac floor). I only had 1 of the Drs. share my wife's diagnosis of my being a 5% victim
of Lexiscan Drug reaction. As I've had Persantine a number of times for my routine stress with no problem. Also, "I went Down" during the injection & no reversal was attempted. So, long story short, my case was the extreme and the actual surgery was not bad as I recovered quickly after the fluid was removed & my vitals returned real quick.
Hopefully your problem will resolve with meds, I think you will do OK . Good Luck & keep us posted !!
DonB

Thanks don

by annalan99 - 2014-01-05 11:01:51

Hi don I responded to your private message but I don't think it saved.thanks so much for your information and thoughts.will keep you posted:)

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