著者

Kanji IGA Kenjiro HORI

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Japanese Journal of Medicine (ISSN:00215120)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.3, pp.305-308, 1990 (Released:2006-03-27)

参考文献数

6

被引用文献数

3 3

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A case of tetanus accompanied by severe reversible left ventricular motion impairment is reported. Emergent coronary angiography showed no abnormalities and large akinesis was present on left ventriculography. The plasma catecholamine level was not too high in the acute phase, therefore it is thought that the cause of this depressed left ventricular wall motion abnormality was due to some metabolite derived from tetanus.