Citation

Das S, Nalini P, Ananthakrishnan S, Sethuraman KR, Balachander J, Srinivasan S. J. Trop. Pediatr. 1995; 41(6): 338-340.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8606440

Abstract

Cardiac complications of 32 children with scorpion envenomation, during a 1-year period from August 1990 to August 1991 were studied. Sixteen children (50 per cent) were diagnosed as having myocarditis; of these in four children the presentation was subclinical. ECG changes were seen in 63 per cent of children envenomed and was a sensitive indicator of myocarditis. Sixty-nine per cent of children with myocarditis had left ventricular dysfunction as shown by echocardiography. Though statistically not significant, there was a correlation between prolonged QTc and LV dysfunction, which needs to be studied further. In those children who came for follow-up, the left ventricular function reversed to normal.

Language: en