Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Dress·ler's syndrome Pronunciation:
'dres-l&rz- Function:
noun : pericarditis after acute myocardial infarction that is oftenrecurrent and may be accompanied by fever, pericardial and pleural effusions, pleurisy, lung infiltrates, and joint pain
Dressler, William(1890–1969) Americancardiologist. Born in Poland, Dressler served as associate chief of a hospital devoted to cardiac care in Vienna from 1924 to 1938. In that year he emigrated to the U.S., becoming chief of the cardiacclinic at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., the following year. While there, he published
Clinical Cardiology (1942) and, with Hugo Roesler,
Atlas of Clinical Cardiology (1948). In1955 he described for the first time recurrent pericarditis following myocardial infarction.
