TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Cardiotoxic effect due to accidental ingestion of an organic solvent
JO  - International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health
A1  - Cieślik-Guerra, Urszula Izabela
A1  - Rechciński, Tomasz
A1  - Trzos, Ewa
A1  - Wierzbowska-Drabik, Karina
A1  - Uznańska-Loch, Barbara
A1  - Winnicka, Renata
A1  - Krakowiak, Anna
A1  - Kasprzak, Jarosław Damian
A1  - Fröhlich, Colin
A1  - Kurpesa, Małgorzata
SP  - 174
EP  - 179
VL  - 28
IS  - 1
N2  - Toxic myocardial injury can be misdiagnosed as a myocardial infarction, resulting in the patient undergoing standard treatment for cardiac rehabilitation. However, such inadequate therapeutic strategies can lead to cardiovascular complications including dilated cardiomyopathy. This study presents a case of a 65-year-old man after accidental ingestion of organic solvents (toluene and xylene), whose condition demonstrated all the criteria for diagnosis of myocardial infarction. The qualitative determinations of the above mentioned volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in whole blood were carried out using a headspace sampling by means of gas chromatography. Cardiac catheterization revealed no specific coronary lesions, only a muscular bridge causing a 30-50% stenosis in the middle of the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1232-1087
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/ijomeh.1896.00257
ID  - ref1
ER  -