Myocardial damage after spider bite (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) in a 16-year-old patient.
The case of a 16-year-old patient with L. tredecimguttatus poisoning complicated by myocardial damage is reported. Symptoms (typical chest pain), electrocardiographic (ST-T changes in precordial leads) and echocardiographic (akinesia of interventricular septum with depressed left ventricular function) features and laboratory findings (increased myocardial enzymes) are described.
Pulignano
G
G
Department of Cardiology, S. Camillo Hospital, Rome.
Del Sindaco
D
D
Giovannini
M
M
Zeisa
P
P
Faia
M
M
Soccorsi
M
M
Minardi
G
G
D000293:Adolescent; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D018476:Hypokinesia; D008297:Male; D001098:Spider Bites / Q000150:complications*; D013616:Tachycardia, Sinus / Q000209:etiology*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology*