title: Myocardial damage after spider bite (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) in a 16-year-old patient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, S. Camillo Hospital, Rome.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pulignano
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Del Sindaco
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giovannini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zeisa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soccorsi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Minardi
mesh_terms: 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*