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1258736

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-5-25
pubmed:abstractText
Over the span of two or three days in August, 1972, in two separate communities in eastern Massachusetts two men, one aged 39, the other 66, each without previous overt heart disease, were stung by wasps. Each went into shock rapidly after an interval of over a half-hour developed chest pain and, later, sequential electrocardiographic changes diagnostic of acute myocardial infarction. Each survived; each had normal electrocardiograms before the sting. Though preexistent coronary artery disease can be excluded in neither, the view is favored that acute myocardial infarction in each was caused by deficient coronary perfusion secondary to anaphylactic shock induced by the wasp stings. An intriguing case was just recently reported58 of a 62-year-old man with previous angina who developed pulmonary edema but no chest pain following wasp sting and went on to show rapidly reversed electrocardiographic changes attributable to subendocardial ischemia or infarction. In a sense, this sequence fills the gap as an intermediate phase between the normal and the two individuals described here who developed pain after anaphylactic shock, then proceeded, perhaps through this phase, to develop transmural infarction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0002-8703
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
365-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-2-27
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Acute myocardial infarction following wasp sting. Report of two cases and critical survey of the literature.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article