Heat Stroke Leading to a Fatal Outcome

Heat stroke (HS) can cause several physiological changes in the body. In its most severe form, it can cause multi-organ failure including encephalopathy, circulatory shock, liver failure, renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rhabdomyolysis among others. HS is a preventable cond...

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Autores principales: Chalise, Som N, Mirza, Ehsun, Malik, Raza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36733559
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33226
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description Heat stroke (HS) can cause several physiological changes in the body. In its most severe form, it can cause multi-organ failure including encephalopathy, circulatory shock, liver failure, renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rhabdomyolysis among others. HS is a preventable condition; however, it can be life-threatening in severe forms. We present a case of HS in a 54-year-old male, with rapidly progressive multi-organ failure and a fatal outcome along with a brief literature review. 
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spelling pubmed-98891012023-02-01 Heat Stroke Leading to a Fatal Outcome Chalise, Som N Mirza, Ehsun Malik, Raza Cureus Emergency Medicine Heat stroke (HS) can cause several physiological changes in the body. In its most severe form, it can cause multi-organ failure including encephalopathy, circulatory shock, liver failure, renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rhabdomyolysis among others. HS is a preventable condition; however, it can be life-threatening in severe forms. We present a case of HS in a 54-year-old male, with rapidly progressive multi-organ failure and a fatal outcome along with a brief literature review.  Cureus 2023-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9889101/ /pubmed/36733559 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33226 Text en Copyright © 2023, Chalise et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889101/
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