P0694 / #405: FLECAINIDE TOXICITY FAMILIAL CASE SERIES

ECG diagnosis: flecainide toxicity.

Joel T Levis, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Physician at the Santa Clara Medical Center, and Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine (Surgery) at Stanford University. He is the Medical Director for the Foothill College Paramedic Program in Los Altos, CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Figure 1. 12-lead Electrocardiogram from a 46-year-old woman with fl ecainide toxicity. Demonstrat...

Arrhythmogenic effect of flecainide toxicity.

Flecainide is a class 1C antiarrhythmic drug especially used for the management of supraventricular arrhythmia. In overdose cases, flecainide can induce life treating ventricular arrhythmias and cardiogenic shock. We report the case of a 72-year-old woman admitted to our intensive care unit for a regular monomorphic wide complex tachycardia (QRS duration 240 ms, right bundle branch block and su...

Familial Hypodontia: A Case Series.

The phenomenon of congenitally missing teeth has been described with different names: hypodontia, oligodontia, anodontia, congenitally missing teeth and dental agenesis. The present paper reports familial hypodontia, involving two siblings from a single family. Case I reported the absence of 18, 12, 22 and 31 teeth whereas case II reported the absence of 31 and 41. On the evaluation of the two ...

Hydrocarbon Toxicity: A Review of Literature and Case Series

Familial Cleidocranial Dysplasia - A Case Series

Introduction: Cleidocranial dysplasia is a rare hereditary autosomal dominant disorder which presents as a defect of the skeleton and the teeth. Case Report: The present case is of a 37 year old male patient with a complaint of difficulty in chewing due to multiple missing teeth. On examination, the pathognomonic triad of Cleidocranial Dysplasia, viz., multiple impacted supernumerary teeth, par...