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A case of cardiac injury and acute renal failure induced by electrical burn
M Washio1, K Onoyama, H Hirakata
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Japanese Journal of Medicine
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Reported is a case of electrical burn associated with cardiac injury and acute renal failure in a 21-year-old man. After coming into contact with a high-tension cable, he became drowsy and oliguria developed. Twenty-four hemodialyses were required. Although the ECG findings revealed an inferior wall myocardial infarction, neither cardiac scintigram (201TlCl) nor ultrasonic cardiography revealed any local lesions. In this case the cardiac damage following electrical burn appeared different from true myocardial infarction.