Myocardial damage after spider bite (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) in a 16-year-old patient.

The case of a 16-year-old patient with L. tredecimguttatus poisoning complicated by myocardial damage is reported. Symptoms (typical chest pain), electrocardiographic (ST-T changes in precordial leads) and echocardiographic (akinesia of interventricular septum with depressed left ventricular function) features and laboratory findings (increased myocardial enzymes) are described.