ReviewBMJ case reports2016
Possible complication of bee stings and a review of the cardiac effects of bee stings.
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- Acute Neurological and Respiratory Complications Induced by Wasp Stings: A Case Report.The American journal of case reports · 2026Article
- A Sting in the Tale: Spurious Erythrocytosis Following Bee Stings Mimicking Gaisböck's Syndrome.Cureus · 2024Article
- Binodal Disease after a Hornet Bee Sting.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2023Article
- Kounis syndrome and atrial fibrillation after bee sting: A case report.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Phenotypic and Transcriptomics Analyses Reveal Underlying Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Corneal Bee Sting.Toxins · 2022Article
- Unusual case of recurrent hypoglycaemia in multiple bee sting envenomation.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Idioventricular rhythm and shock after a honeybee sting.Archivos de cardiologia de Mexico · 2021Review
- Mobitz Type-2 Heart Block After a Bee-Sting.Cureus · 2020Article
- Africanised honey bee sting-induced ischaemic stroke.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
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- Acute Ischemic Stroke Due to Multiple Bee Stings_A Delayed Complication.Annals of Indian Academy of NeurologyArticle
- A Case of Transient Morbitz Type II Following a Bee Sting with Intradermal Hemorrhage.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shockArticle
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Abstract
We report the case of a patient who, ∼3 weeks after multiple bee stings, developed a prolonged heart block, syncope and cardiac arrest. This required a temporary pacemaker to be implanted, which was later replaced with a permanent pacemaker. An ECG taken following surgery for a fractured humerus 6 years earlier was reportedly normal. The patient had been a rubber tapper who walked ∼1.5 km/day, but after the bee attack he was no longer able to walk or get up from the bed without experiencing syncope. We presume that the bee venom caused these signs, as well as the resulting heart block, which persisted long after the bee sting had subsided. Since his coronary angiogram was normal we believe he had a Kounis type involvement of the cardiovascular system, namely profound coronary spasm that caused complete heart block that did not recover. Another probable reason for the complete heart block could have been that the bees had consumed the pollen of a rhododendron flower, causing 'grayanotoxin' poisoning and severe heart block. The other effects of bee sting are discussed briefly.
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