A Case of Heat Stroke after a Marathon.
- Author:
Bo Seung KANG
;
Jeong Hoon LEE
;
Hyung Kon SONG
;
Keun Jung SONG
;
Yeon Kwon JEONG
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Acute Kidney Injury;
Adult;
Body Temperature;
Central Nervous System;
Emergencies;
Heat Stroke*;
Hemofiltration;
Hot Temperature*;
Humans;
Liver Failure, Acute;
Male;
Rhabdomyolysis;
Seizures;
Shock;
Skin
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2000;11(3):390-396
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Heat stroke, a medical emergency, occurs when the body's thermal regulation is upset and unable to dissipate adequate amounts of heat with a rise in body temperature. It is characterized by hyperyrexia, with a core temperature of 40degrees C or more, hot dry skin, and central nervous system disturbance and usually results in rhabdomyolysis and multiorgan failure. Our case, a 43-year-old healthy male, was caused by a marathon, half course, on a sunny day in late summer. He suddenly fell down on the road and was delivered to a nearby hospital, where a seizure developed. He was transfered to our hospital and then displayed Central Nervous System disturbance, hot dry skin, acute liver failure, rhabdomyolysis, anuric acute renal failure, and disseminated intravasculular coagulopathy. He was treated with general supportive care and hemofiltration. Despite the aggressive management, he died of shock on the fifth day after admission.
