Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings

Usually, bee sting systemic envenomation is self-limited mild allergic reaction rarely associated with systemic manifestations such as anaphylaxis, myocardial injury, encephalitis, acute kidney injury and serum sickness. Kounis syndrome also known as allergic myocardial infarction is uncommon clinic...

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Autores principales: Pirasath, Selladurai, Senthan, Vallipuranathan, Seneviratne, Manosha Harshani
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X21999206
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author Pirasath, Selladurai
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Seneviratne, Manosha Harshani
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description Usually, bee sting systemic envenomation is self-limited mild allergic reaction rarely associated with systemic manifestations such as anaphylaxis, myocardial injury, encephalitis, acute kidney injury and serum sickness. Kounis syndrome also known as allergic myocardial infarction is uncommon clinical feature and reported cases are scarce in literature. Herein, we described a hypothetical case of Kounis syndrome diagnosed in a 74-year-old man initially presenting for anaphylactic reaction.
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spelling pubmed-88261042022-02-10 Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings Pirasath, Selladurai Senthan, Vallipuranathan Seneviratne, Manosha Harshani SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Usually, bee sting systemic envenomation is self-limited mild allergic reaction rarely associated with systemic manifestations such as anaphylaxis, myocardial injury, encephalitis, acute kidney injury and serum sickness. Kounis syndrome also known as allergic myocardial infarction is uncommon clinical feature and reported cases are scarce in literature. Herein, we described a hypothetical case of Kounis syndrome diagnosed in a 74-year-old man initially presenting for anaphylactic reaction. SAGE Publications 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8826104/ /pubmed/35154774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X21999206 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
title_full Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
title_fullStr Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
title_full_unstemmed Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
title_short Kounis syndrome: Acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
title_sort kounis syndrome: acute myocardial infarction following multiple bee stings
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X21999206
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