Myocardial injury in scorpion envenomed children: Significance of assessment of serum troponin I and interleukin-8

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-140

  Meki, Abdel Raheim A M ^a   Mohey El Deen, Zeinab M ^a   Mohey El Deen, Hassan M ^a  

^a Assiut University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cardiac injury; Children; Interleukin 8; Scorpion; Troponin I

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; INTERLEUKIN 8; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SCORPION VENOM; TROPONIN I;

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EGYPT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DILATATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0036257923     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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