Reversible dilative cardiomyopathy after electrical injury: a case report

BACKGROUND: Dilative cardiomyopathy is an uncommon cardiac complication of electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 12-year-old German boy with a high voltage injury who developed a four-chamber dilative cardiomyopathy, which was diagnosed on the 13th week postburn. One year after th...

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Autores principales: Liodaki, Eirini, Galati, Virginia, Bethge, Martin, Göpel, Wolfgang, Mailaender, Peter, Stang, Felix
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30404652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1861-2
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author Liodaki, Eirini
Galati, Virginia
Bethge, Martin
Göpel, Wolfgang
Mailaender, Peter
Stang, Felix
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Stang, Felix
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description BACKGROUND: Dilative cardiomyopathy is an uncommon cardiac complication of electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 12-year-old German boy with a high voltage injury who developed a four-chamber dilative cardiomyopathy, which was diagnosed on the 13th week postburn. One year after the accident, echocardiography showed a normal function of his heart with 64% ejection fraction and normal cavities’ dimensions. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the fact that dilative cardiomyopathy is not very common in electrical injuries but can be fatal, a prolonged echocardiography follow-up for patients with electrical injury could be recommended. Until now this case is the first child with severe burns after electrocution, who developed a reversible dilative cardiomyopathy.
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spelling pubmed-62230102018-11-19 Reversible dilative cardiomyopathy after electrical injury: a case report Liodaki, Eirini Galati, Virginia Bethge, Martin Göpel, Wolfgang Mailaender, Peter Stang, Felix J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Dilative cardiomyopathy is an uncommon cardiac complication of electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 12-year-old German boy with a high voltage injury who developed a four-chamber dilative cardiomyopathy, which was diagnosed on the 13th week postburn. One year after the accident, echocardiography showed a normal function of his heart with 64% ejection fraction and normal cavities’ dimensions. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the fact that dilative cardiomyopathy is not very common in electrical injuries but can be fatal, a prolonged echocardiography follow-up for patients with electrical injury could be recommended. Until now this case is the first child with severe burns after electrocution, who developed a reversible dilative cardiomyopathy. BioMed Central 2018-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6223010/ /pubmed/30404652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1861-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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