An 88-year-old man was referred to our Unit for a bowel obstruction. The past history included a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with cor pulmonale treated with anti-cholinergic and glucocorticoid inhalation therapy, as well as prostate cancer. At admission he was periodically drowsy and confused. Arterial gas analysis demonstrated a mild respiratory failure with hypercapnia and normal arterial O2-saturation. The EKG showed a sinus rhythm. A few hours later atrial fibrillation began, and the patient was treated with an intravenous infusion of amiodarone, with recovery of a sinus rhythm. An amiodarone oral maintenance regimen was then started.

Unintentional although providential iodinated contrast / Luca Naldi;Filippo Fassio;Chiara Alamanni;Maurizio Bartolucci;Ilaria Cecioni;Pietro Amedeo Modesti. - In: INTERNAL AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE. - ISSN 1828-0447. - STAMPA. - 5:(2010), pp. 221-223. [10.1007/s11739-010-0384-7]

Unintentional although providential iodinated contrast

MODESTI, PIETRO AMEDEO
2010

Abstract

An 88-year-old man was referred to our Unit for a bowel obstruction. The past history included a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with cor pulmonale treated with anti-cholinergic and glucocorticoid inhalation therapy, as well as prostate cancer. At admission he was periodically drowsy and confused. Arterial gas analysis demonstrated a mild respiratory failure with hypercapnia and normal arterial O2-saturation. The EKG showed a sinus rhythm. A few hours later atrial fibrillation began, and the patient was treated with an intravenous infusion of amiodarone, with recovery of a sinus rhythm. An amiodarone oral maintenance regimen was then started.
2010
5
221
223
Luca Naldi;Filippo Fassio;Chiara Alamanni;Maurizio Bartolucci;Ilaria Cecioni;Pietro Amedeo Modesti
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