Lucia Bernasconi, Azzurra Schicchi, Roberto Pirozzolo, Valentina Negrini, Giulia Scaravaggi, Davide Lonati, Valeria M Petrolini, Carlo A Locatelli
INTRODUCTION: Until now very few cases of an adverse cardiovascular event have been described following European viper envenomation (Aravanis et al., 1982) (Aravanis et al., 1982) (Aravanis et al., 1982) (Aravanis et al., 1982). In fact, cardiac toxicity following snake bite is rare and primary reported from tropical and subtropical areas with only twenty-one cases of myocardial infarction reported in literature. Herein, we report a case of European viper envenomation associated with coronary artery thrombosis complicated by acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest...
December 2022: Toxicon: Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology