Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Acute Myocardial Infarction – An Extremely Rare Complication of Krait Bite

  • Author:
  • S.C. Aundhakar1, Dhanesh Mhaskar2, Sanket Mahajan2, Makarand Mane3
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 158 to 159

1Head of Department of Medicine, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, Dhebewadi Road, Karad, Satara- 415 110, Maharashtra State, India

2Resident Doctor, Department of Medicine, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, Dhebewadi Road, Karad, Satara- 415 110, Maharashtra State, India

3Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, Dhebewadi Road, Karad, Satara- 415 110, Maharashtra State, India

Online published on 17 November, 2012.

Abstract

The clinical picture following snake bite is usually characterized by local tissue reaction, haemorrhagic manifestations, respiratory muscle paralysis and nephrotoxicity. Cardiac involvement is extremely rare. There are few case reports of acute myocardial infarction (MI) following snake bite.1,2,3 We present here a case of anteroseptal with lateral wall myocardial infarction following Krait bite.

Keywords

Neuroparalytic Snake Bite, Myocardial Infarction, Extremely Rare