Improvement in a patient suffering from cardiac injury due to severe hydrogen sulfide poisoning: A long-term examination of the process of recovery of heart failure by performing nuclear medicine study

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1745-1748

  Amino, Mari ^a   Yoshioka, Koichiro ^a   Suzuki, Yosuke ^a   Uemura, Shunryo ^a   Sakurai, Keiji ^a   Fukushima, Tomokazu ^a   Morita, Seiji ^a   Otsuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshihide ^a   Yamamoto, Isotoshi ^a   Kodama, Itsuo ^b   Inokuchi, Sadaki ^a   Tanabe, Teruhisa ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac injury; Hydrogen sulfide poisoning; Nuclear medicine study of the heart

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; 15 (4 IODOPHENYL) 3 METHYLPENTADECANOIC ACID I 123; CARVEDILOL; CREATINE KINASE; ENALAPRIL; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IODINE 123; OXYGEN; TETROFOSMIN; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GAS POISONING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PH; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; Q WAVE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VITAL SIGN;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATTY ACIDS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IODOBENZENES; MALE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70450172726     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2382     Document Type: Article

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