Table 1. Clinical characteristics of 47 patients with postpericardiotomy syndrome treated between March 2009 and October 2015.

Clinical characteristic	Number (%)
Age (years), median (range)	61 (65)
Gender, male	35 (74)
Time to diagnosis (days), median (range)	14 (33)
Fever	19 (40)
C-reactive protein (mg/L), median (range)	53 (114)
Diabetes mellitus type 2	10 (21)
Chronic renal insufficiency	9 (19)
Pleural effusion	40 (85)
Pericardial effusion	35 (74)
Pleural percutaneous drainage	15 (32)
Pericardial percutaneous drainage	1 (2)