A case of severe heat stroke with abnormal cardiac findings

International Heart Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 543-550

  Wakino, Shu ^a   Hori, Shingo ^a   Mimura, Takuya ^a   Miyatake, Satoru ^a   Fujishima, Seitaroh ^a   Aikawa, Naoki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Heat stroke; Multiple organ failure; Myocardium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GABEXATE MESILATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLD TREATMENT; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTINUOUS HEMODIAFILTRATION; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FATALITY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEPSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STOMACH LAVAGE; T WAVE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEAT STROKE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 26044435686     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.46.543     Document Type: Article

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