Binge Drinking–Induced Subtle Myocardial Injury

Most of the clinical, histopathological, and biochemical studies consider the effect of chronic alcohol intoxication on myocardial injury. Much less attention has been paid to acute alcohol (binge drinking)–induced cardiotoxicity, even though alcohol binging is much more common than alcohol dependence.



We briefly present some of the binge drinking–induced “holiday heart” effects. The