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Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning
Organophosphorus (OP) pesticide poisoning is a major clinical and public health problem in a developing country like India. Cardiac injury is a strong predictor of death in these patients. Cardiac complications usually described include cardiac arrest, pulmonary edema, and arrhythmia. Rarely, myocar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184617 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.217856 |
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author | Maheshwari, Monika Chaudhary, Shreekant |
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description | Organophosphorus (OP) pesticide poisoning is a major clinical and public health problem in a developing country like India. Cardiac injury is a strong predictor of death in these patients. Cardiac complications usually described include cardiac arrest, pulmonary edema, and arrhythmia. Rarely, myocardial infarction has also been reported. The possible mechanisms for myocardial injury include sympathetic/parasympathetic overactivity, hypoxemia, acidosis, dyselectrolytemia, and direct cardiotoxicity. We describe herein one case of OP poisoning, recently admitted in our emergency department and which was complicated by acute onset atrial fibrillation which reverted to sinus rhythm following detoxification of OP compound. |
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spelling | pubmed-56869362017-11-28 Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning Maheshwari, Monika Chaudhary, Shreekant Heart Views Case Report Organophosphorus (OP) pesticide poisoning is a major clinical and public health problem in a developing country like India. Cardiac injury is a strong predictor of death in these patients. Cardiac complications usually described include cardiac arrest, pulmonary edema, and arrhythmia. Rarely, myocardial infarction has also been reported. The possible mechanisms for myocardial injury include sympathetic/parasympathetic overactivity, hypoxemia, acidosis, dyselectrolytemia, and direct cardiotoxicity. We describe herein one case of OP poisoning, recently admitted in our emergency department and which was complicated by acute onset atrial fibrillation which reverted to sinus rhythm following detoxification of OP compound. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5686936/ /pubmed/29184617 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.217856 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Heart Views http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Maheshwari, Monika Chaudhary, Shreekant Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title | Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title_full | Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title_fullStr | Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title_short | Acute Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Organophosphorus Poisoning |
title_sort | acute atrial fibrillation complicating organophosphorus poisoning |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29184617 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.217856 |
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