Acute Heart Failure Due to Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning

Aluminum phosphide (ALP) is a pesticide agent and infrequent culprit of accidental poisoning. We present a case of severe reversible cardiomyopathy and left ventricular apical thrombus in a patient who worked as an exterminator and had ALP poisoning.

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Autores principales: Petrovic, Marija, Otero, Diana, Leigh, Adam, Singh, Vikas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824673
http://dx.doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.295
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spelling pubmed-85887492021-11-24 Acute Heart Failure Due to Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning Petrovic, Marija Otero, Diana Leigh, Adam Singh, Vikas Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J Case Report Aluminum phosphide (ALP) is a pesticide agent and infrequent culprit of accidental poisoning. We present a case of severe reversible cardiomyopathy and left ventricular apical thrombus in a patient who worked as an exterminator and had ALP poisoning. Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8588749/ /pubmed/34824673 http://dx.doi.org/10.14797/mdcvj.295 Text en Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Acute Heart Failure Due to Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning
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title_full Acute Heart Failure Due to Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8588749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824673
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