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Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report
Individuals with chronic alcohol use can be asymptomatic for a prolonged period of time and then exhibit signs of advanced heart and liver diseases with an abrupt onset. Herein, we present a case of a 60-year-old male with severe alcohol use disorder who presented with newly diagnosed atrial fibrill...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325691 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40364 |
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author | Arbabi, Amirmohsen Garg, Bella Reddy, Sridhar M Patel, Paryus |
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description | Individuals with chronic alcohol use can be asymptomatic for a prolonged period of time and then exhibit signs of advanced heart and liver diseases with an abrupt onset. Herein, we present a case of a 60-year-old male with severe alcohol use disorder who presented with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) with rapid ventricular response (RVR), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and alcohol-associated cirrhosis following an episode of binge drinking. |
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spelling | pubmed-102630712023-06-15 Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report Arbabi, Amirmohsen Garg, Bella Reddy, Sridhar M Patel, Paryus Cureus Cardiology Individuals with chronic alcohol use can be asymptomatic for a prolonged period of time and then exhibit signs of advanced heart and liver diseases with an abrupt onset. Herein, we present a case of a 60-year-old male with severe alcohol use disorder who presented with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF) with rapid ventricular response (RVR), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and alcohol-associated cirrhosis following an episode of binge drinking. Cureus 2023-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10263071/ /pubmed/37325691 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40364 Text en Copyright © 2023, Arbabi 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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Arbabi, Amirmohsen Garg, Bella Reddy, Sridhar M Patel, Paryus Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title | Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title_full | Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title_short | Chronic Alcoholism and Its Health Implications: A Case Report |
title_sort | chronic alcoholism and its health implications: a case report |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325691 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40364 |
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