Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a frequent cause of emergency room
admissions, especially during winter days, the symptoms are varied ranging from
a simple headache to a serious cardiac and neurological impairment that can be
deadly. Diagnosis is based on the circumstances of occurrence as well as the
dosage of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood. Exposure to CO has serious
consequences, neurological and cardiac manifestations are not negligible and
vary from repolarization disorders to heart attack. Treatment is urgent with
normobaric or hyperbaric oxygen therapy. We report a case of a 2-year male
child admitted to the emergency room for CO intoxication with an intracardiac
thrombus subsequently complicated by an ischemic stroke with a fatal outcome in
order to highlight this complication rarely described in literature.
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