Inflammation of the pericardium (pericarditis) was noted in some of cardiac patients who experienced a myocardial infarction within weeks to months. This is known as  Dressler’s Syndrome.

As already mentioned, we know the "pericarditis poststenocardiaca", also called Dressler Syndrome, which is different from the "pericarditis epistenocardiaca", occuring localized  together with and not after a myocardial infarction. The ECG signs may mimic an ischemia, but are, especially in case of the Dressler Syndrome, more generalized in nearly all ECG leads, often accompanied by an also generalized low voltage.

Ischemia is the main cause of inflammation and adhesion of tissues, especially post operations. This phenomenon is common after most abdominal and thoracic surgery like any kind of heart surgery. Although ischemia of coronary arteries can cause bloody pericardial effusion and finally started the process of pericarditis and pericardial adhesion that we called it Dressler Syndrome.