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Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a toxicological emergency and may be responsible for more than half of all fatal poisonings worldwide. Serious effects of CO are frequently seen in the brain and heart as well as other organs that are particularly sensitive to hypoxia. Cardiac manifestations include...

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Autores principales: ElBelihy, Ossma E, Gebril, Amr, Abd Alhaleem, Ahmed E, Ibrahim, Tarek E, Osman, Ahmed B, Al Masalmeh, Hussein A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10249643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37303405
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38768
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author ElBelihy, Ossma E
Gebril, Amr
Abd Alhaleem, Ahmed E
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Osman, Ahmed B
Al Masalmeh, Hussein A
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description Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a toxicological emergency and may be responsible for more than half of all fatal poisonings worldwide. Serious effects of CO are frequently seen in the brain and heart as well as other organs that are particularly sensitive to hypoxia. Cardiac manifestations include dysrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and even cardiac arrest. Even in mild cases of CO poisoning with absent chest pain, the emergency physician should evaluate features of myocardial injury, as this can serve as a predictor of mortality and morbidity. A case of a young, healthy man with severe CO poisoning presented with atrial fibrillation (AF) and vasospastic angina, and he was managed successfully with high-flow oxygen.
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spelling pubmed-102496432023-06-09 Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ElBelihy, Ossma E Gebril, Amr Abd Alhaleem, Ahmed E Ibrahim, Tarek E Osman, Ahmed B Al Masalmeh, Hussein A Cureus Emergency Medicine Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a toxicological emergency and may be responsible for more than half of all fatal poisonings worldwide. Serious effects of CO are frequently seen in the brain and heart as well as other organs that are particularly sensitive to hypoxia. Cardiac manifestations include dysrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and even cardiac arrest. Even in mild cases of CO poisoning with absent chest pain, the emergency physician should evaluate features of myocardial injury, as this can serve as a predictor of mortality and morbidity. A case of a young, healthy man with severe CO poisoning presented with atrial fibrillation (AF) and vasospastic angina, and he was managed successfully with high-flow oxygen. Cureus 2023-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10249643/ /pubmed/37303405 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38768 Text en Copyright © 2023, ElBelihy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title_full Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title_fullStr Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title_full_unstemmed Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title_short Atrial Fibrillation and Silent Coronary Spasm Complicating Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
title_sort atrial fibrillation and silent coronary spasm complicating severe carbon monoxide poisoning
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10249643/
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