Right Bundle Branch Block: An Uncommon Cardiotoxic Manifestation of Hair Dye Poisoning-A Case Report
Published: January 1, 2014 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2014/.3962
Deepak Balasubramanian, Saravanan Subramanian, Pugazhenthan Thangaraju, Kani Shanmugam
1. Resident, School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
2. Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Thoothukudi Government Medical College, Thoothukudi
3. Medical Officer, Central Leprosy Training and Re-search Institute, Chengal-pattu, Tamil Nadu, India.
4. Professor, Department of Medicine, Thoothukudi Government Medical College, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Deepak Balasubramanian,
Resident, School of Public Health, PGIMER, Sector 12, Chandigarh, India.
Phone: 09988793364, E-mail: deep19882000@gmail.com
Hair dye poisoning has been rising in incidence in the recent years. Apart from the commoner manifestations of upper airway edema, rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure, cardiac toxicity, convulsions and sudden cardiac death are relatively rare complications. We discuss a case of hair dye poisoning manifesting as oropharyngeal edema along with cardiac complication. The patient survived.
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