Severe Cardiomyopathy after Huffing Dust-Off™

A 34-year-old man was found down in a parking lot after huffing fifteen cans of Dust-Off. Though lucid during the initial hospital evaluation, the patient experienced a generalized seizure followed by a torsades de pointes arrhythmia and was resuscitated. An echocardiogram revealed left and right ve...

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Autores principales: Cates, Alexis L., Cook, Matthew D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27313914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9204790
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description A 34-year-old man was found down in a parking lot after huffing fifteen cans of Dust-Off. Though lucid during the initial hospital evaluation, the patient experienced a generalized seizure followed by a torsades de pointes arrhythmia and was resuscitated. An echocardiogram revealed left and right ventricular dysfunction with an ejection fraction of 25%. This unique outcome of inhalant abuse has scarcely been reported in similar cases. The patient fully recovered and had a normal ejection fraction prior to discharge.
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spelling pubmed-48976812016-06-16 Severe Cardiomyopathy after Huffing Dust-Off™ Cates, Alexis L. Cook, Matthew D. Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report A 34-year-old man was found down in a parking lot after huffing fifteen cans of Dust-Off. Though lucid during the initial hospital evaluation, the patient experienced a generalized seizure followed by a torsades de pointes arrhythmia and was resuscitated. An echocardiogram revealed left and right ventricular dysfunction with an ejection fraction of 25%. This unique outcome of inhalant abuse has scarcely been reported in similar cases. The patient fully recovered and had a normal ejection fraction prior to discharge. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4897681/ /pubmed/27313914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9204790 Text en Copyright © 2016 A. L. Cates and M. D. Cook. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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