Toxic myocarditis

Toxic myocarditis is condition that caused by toxins or poisons, the disease was mainly due to toxins or poisons from mucocutaneous, gastrointestinal, respiratory into the body, causing damage to the myocardium.

Toxic myocarditis risk factors: myocardial damaged by some infectious diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery; some biological toxins such as snake venom, muscarinic; and certain drugs or chemical substances such as quinidine, emetine, organic phosphorus, organic mercury, arsenic, carbon monoxide.

Toxic myocarditis is is often an important performance of systemic poisoning, in a critical condition with severe heart failure and arrhythmias were the high mortality rate, effective emergency treatment can often save the patient's life. The purpose of toxic myocarditis treatment is which improve myocardial metabolism and nutrition, prevention and control heart failure and arrhythmias.

Toxic myocarditis symptoms: 1. The symptoms of Toxic myocarditis is heart failure, such as heart palpitations, shortness of breath, blood stasis of pulmonary circulation; 2. Arrhythmia performance.

Toxic myocarditis diagnosis: mainly based on ECG. 1. Evidence of Toxins or poisons by mucocutaneous, gastrointestinal or respiratory tract into the body; 2. clinical performance is heart failure, arrhythmia. Use laboratory tests to diagnosis for Toxic myocarditis.

Toxic myocarditis treatment: 1. Immediate stop poison or toxins into the body, and promote their excretion; 2. The use of antidote or antagonist; 3. To improve myocardial metabolism and nutrition; 4. Prevent and treat heart failure or arrhythmia.