CASE REPORT Carbon monoxide poisoni a

is available at the end of the articleBackground Acute carbon monoxide poisoning is a clinically impera-tive condition since the poisoning can lead to severe cardiovascular complications and/or sudden death [1]. Cardiac problems associated with carbon monoxide poi-soning are usually described as delayed myocardial in-jury [2] or carbon monoxide induced cardiac damage [3], but no clinical term has ever been defined for the cardiac injury induced by carbon monoxide poisoning. There have been several reports about healthy individ-uals suffering from the same injury after work related exposures to carbon monoxide [4]. Thus, in addition to accidental exposures, carbon monoxide poisoning is now also believed to result from occupational exposures among workers ’ who are directly and chronically ex-posed to a high amount of the gas. Generally, in an open environment, carbon monoxide i