A Rare Case of Lead-Induced Cardiomyopathy

A 39-year-old man, painter by profession, presented with symptoms of heart failure. His work up was unrevealing except for elevated blood lead levels (BLL). He was started on guideline-directed medical therapy and was referred to occupational therapy. No improvement in his ejection fraction was note...

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Autores principales: Hegde, Shruti, Maysky, Michael, Zaidi, Abbas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Mini-Focus Issue: Heart Failure
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.047
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description A 39-year-old man, painter by profession, presented with symptoms of heart failure. His work up was unrevealing except for elevated blood lead levels (BLL). He was started on guideline-directed medical therapy and was referred to occupational therapy. No improvement in his ejection fraction was noted until his BLL decreased. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)
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spelling pubmed-83021182021-07-26 A Rare Case of Lead-Induced Cardiomyopathy Hegde, Shruti Maysky, Michael Zaidi, Abbas JACC Case Rep Mini-Focus Issue: Heart Failure A 39-year-old man, painter by profession, presented with symptoms of heart failure. His work up was unrevealing except for elevated blood lead levels (BLL). He was started on guideline-directed medical therapy and was referred to occupational therapy. No improvement in his ejection fraction was noted until his BLL decreased. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.) Elsevier 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8302118/ /pubmed/34317004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.047 Text en © 2020 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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