Myocardial damage after spider bite (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) in a 16-year-old patient

G Ital Cardiol. 1998 Oct;28(10):1149-53; discussion 1154-6.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Heart Septum / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypokinesia
  • Male
  • Spider Bites / complications*
  • Tachycardia, Sinus / etiology*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology*