Mechanisms Involving Myocardial Injury in Tropical Stings and Bites

It is known that a number of toxic substances produce myocardial injury by several mechanisms involving interruption of coronary blood flow due to stimulation of clotting mechanism and coronary vasospasm. Number of toxic substances may cause direct myocardial toxicity independent of coronary blood f...

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Autores principales: Kumanan, Thirunavukarasu, Guruparan, Mahesan, Vithiya, Ratnasamy, Gawarammana, Indika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29230332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4960505
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author Kumanan, Thirunavukarasu
Guruparan, Mahesan
Vithiya, Ratnasamy
Gawarammana, Indika
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description It is known that a number of toxic substances produce myocardial injury by several mechanisms involving interruption of coronary blood flow due to stimulation of clotting mechanism and coronary vasospasm. Number of toxic substances may cause direct myocardial toxicity independent of coronary blood flow. Acute myocardial injury due to stings and bites is a rare entity and not well understood. Here we illustrate a case of myocardial injury due to Russell's viper envenomation.
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spelling pubmed-56883712017-12-11 Mechanisms Involving Myocardial Injury in Tropical Stings and Bites Kumanan, Thirunavukarasu Guruparan, Mahesan Vithiya, Ratnasamy Gawarammana, Indika Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report It is known that a number of toxic substances produce myocardial injury by several mechanisms involving interruption of coronary blood flow due to stimulation of clotting mechanism and coronary vasospasm. Number of toxic substances may cause direct myocardial toxicity independent of coronary blood flow. Acute myocardial injury due to stings and bites is a rare entity and not well understood. Here we illustrate a case of myocardial injury due to Russell's viper envenomation. Hindawi 2017 2017-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5688371/ /pubmed/29230332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4960505 Text en Copyright © 2017 Thirunavukarasu Kumanan et al. 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688371/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4960505
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