Acute myocardial infarction following a Russell’s viper bite: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Snake bite is a common and devastating environmental hazard, especially in rural areas of tropical countries. Acute myocardial infarction caused by snakebite has rarely been reported. To our knowledge we found only 10 cases of Myocardial infarction following a viper bite in English lit...

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Autores principales: Niraj, Mahboob, Jayaweera, Jayamalee L, Kumara, Indunil WGD, Tissera, Nirmali WAJ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-6-7
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description INTRODUCTION: Snake bite is a common and devastating environmental hazard, especially in rural areas of tropical countries. Acute myocardial infarction caused by snakebite has rarely been reported. To our knowledge we found only 10 cases of Myocardial infarction following a viper bite in English literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction following a Russell’s viper bite in a 37 year old healthy Sri Lankan (South Asian) female with no past history of cardiac disease or cardiac risk factors who died 30 hours following the bite. CONCLUSION: The course of events with respect to myocardium suggests a direct toxic effect of the venom on myocardial tissue or coronary vasoconstriction. Physicians should bear in mind the complications and devastating sequela of Myocardial infarction following Russell’s viper bite.
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spelling pubmed-36053542013-03-23 Acute myocardial infarction following a Russell’s viper bite: a case report Niraj, Mahboob Jayaweera, Jayamalee L Kumara, Indunil WGD Tissera, Nirmali WAJ Int Arch Med Case Report INTRODUCTION: Snake bite is a common and devastating environmental hazard, especially in rural areas of tropical countries. Acute myocardial infarction caused by snakebite has rarely been reported. To our knowledge we found only 10 cases of Myocardial infarction following a viper bite in English literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of inferior ST elevation myocardial infarction following a Russell’s viper bite in a 37 year old healthy Sri Lankan (South Asian) female with no past history of cardiac disease or cardiac risk factors who died 30 hours following the bite. CONCLUSION: The course of events with respect to myocardium suggests a direct toxic effect of the venom on myocardial tissue or coronary vasoconstriction. Physicians should bear in mind the complications and devastating sequela of Myocardial infarction following Russell’s viper bite. BioMed Central 2013-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3605354/ /pubmed/24499589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-7682-6-7 Text en Copyright ©2013 Niraj et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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