[Holiday heart syndrome: spontaneous reversibility of the electrocardiographic and echocardiographic alterations].
The holiday heart syndrome is characterized by symptomatic arrhythmias more often supraventricular, elicited by alcohol ingestion, typically during the week-end period. After admission, electrocardiographic changes, which disappear in few days, are often reported. A case of an alcoholic with syncopal episodes related to alcohol ingestion is described. In this patient, remarkable changes of ventricular repolarization on the electrocardiogram associated with impairment of ventricular diastolic function on the Doppler echocardiographic study are showed. ECG and echo-Doppler data reversed to normality after few days of alcohol withdrawal.
Morelli
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De Marzio
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Suppa
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M
Gnecchi
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M
Giordano
M
M
Aguglia
F
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Balsano
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F
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001282:Atrial Flutter / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005117:Cardiac Complexes, Premature / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006693:Holidays; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013577:Syndrome
"Holiday heart syndrome": reversibilità spontanea di alterazioni elettrocardiografiche ed ecocardiografiche.