Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report

INTRODUCTION: A case of cardiac toxicity due to prolonged hypothermia is reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 42-year-old woman of Caucasian origin presented with hypothermia after an accident. She developed atrial fibrillation and heart failure with minor electrocardiographic changes, which mimicked isch...

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Autores principales: Siniorakis, Eftychios, Arvanitakis, Spyridon, Roulia, Georgia, Voutas, Petros, Karidis, Constantinos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830229
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8459
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author Siniorakis, Eftychios
Arvanitakis, Spyridon
Roulia, Georgia
Voutas, Petros
Karidis, Constantinos
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Arvanitakis, Spyridon
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description INTRODUCTION: A case of cardiac toxicity due to prolonged hypothermia is reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 42-year-old woman of Caucasian origin presented with hypothermia after an accident. She developed atrial fibrillation and heart failure with minor electrocardiographic changes, which mimicked ischaemia. She recovered completely after one month of treatment for heart failure. CONCLUSION: Prolonged hypothermia, which mimicks ischaemia, may cause arrhythmias and heart failure.
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spelling pubmed-27377782009-10-14 Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report Siniorakis, Eftychios Arvanitakis, Spyridon Roulia, Georgia Voutas, Petros Karidis, Constantinos J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: A case of cardiac toxicity due to prolonged hypothermia is reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 42-year-old woman of Caucasian origin presented with hypothermia after an accident. She developed atrial fibrillation and heart failure with minor electrocardiographic changes, which mimicked ischaemia. She recovered completely after one month of treatment for heart failure. CONCLUSION: Prolonged hypothermia, which mimicks ischaemia, may cause arrhythmias and heart failure. BioMed Central 2009-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2737778/ /pubmed/19830229 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8459 Text en Copyright ©2009 licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Siniorakis, Eftychios
Arvanitakis, Spyridon
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Karidis, Constantinos
Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title_full Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title_fullStr Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title_short Myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
title_sort myocardial damage after prolonged accidental hypothermia: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830229
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-8459
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