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Case Reports
. 1998 Oct;28(10):1149-53; discussion 1154-6.

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

G Pulignano  1 , D Del Sindaco, M Giovannini, P Zeisa, M Faia, M Soccorsi, G Minardi
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  • PMID: 9834868
Case Reports

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

G Pulignano et al. G Ital Cardiol. 1998 Oct.

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.

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