Citation

McGill MP, Kamp TJ, Rahko PS. Chest 1999; 115(2): 586-587.

Affiliation

Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American College of Chest Physicians)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10027467

Abstract

This report describes the case of a 27-year-old man who survived a high-voltage chest injury that resulted in acute biventricular dysfunction. Although the prognosis is generally poor, complete recovery of cardiac function over days to weeks has been documented. This case is unique because the patient regained complete recovery of left ventricular function over 3 months, but had persistent right heart dysfunction on serial echocardiographic evaluations.

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