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ArticleCase reports in emergency medicine2021

Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Treated with Snake Antivenom.

Waleed Salem, Mohamed Gafar Abdelrahim, Layth Al Majmaie, Mohammed Dahdaha, Faten Al-Bakri, Amr Elmoheen

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Article in Case reports in emergency medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Waleed SalemEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0076-0088
Mohamed Gafar AbdelrahimEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5522-6010
Layth Al MajmaieEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1726-3953
Mohammed DahdahaEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-2243
Faten Al-BakriEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6898-493X
Amr ElmoheenEmergency Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-5353
Hamad General Hospital · QA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac complications following snakebites are uncommon but fatal. Here, we discuss a case of a snakebite that led to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Forty-five-year-old male presented to the emergency room with snakebite on the right middle finger. He was given symptomatic treatment and admitted for observation. His vital signs and initial investigations were normal except for the white blood count that was high. During observation, he developed vomiting and bradycardia. He was diagnosed with a right bundle branch block on ECG. The patient developed chest pain after a few hours and was diagnosed with AMI on ECG. The toxicology team started antivenom therapy. His troponin kept rising initially but later started coming down without percutaneous intervention (PCI). He was treated successfully with antivenom therapy and discharged.

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