Myocardial injury due to lightning strike--a case report.
Lightning strike is a natural phenomenon with potentially devastating effects and represents one of the leading causes of cardiac arrest and death from environmental phenomena. Almost every organ system may be impaired as lightning passes through the human body taking the shortest pathways between the contact points. In this paper, the authors report a 38-year-old man who was injured by lightning, a typical example of ;;side splash,'' and had transient electrocardiographic changes.
Alyan
Omer
O
Türkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Hospital, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey. mendikan@yahoo.com
Ozdemir
Ozcan
O
Tufekcioglu
Omaç
O
Geyik
Bilal
B
Aras
Dursun
D
Demirkan
Deniz
D
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006329:Heart Conduction System / Q000293:injuries* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015168:Lightning Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous