Acute myocardial involvement after heroin inhalation

Amongst the illicit drugs cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis have been studied and documented well to cause myocardial infarction by different mechanisms but there is very sparse data available on myocardial involvement after heroin abuse. We report a young man who developed acute myocardial injury...

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Autores principales: Karoli, Ritu, Fatima, J., Singh, Pushker, Kazmi, Khursheed I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23129970
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.99448
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author Karoli, Ritu
Fatima, J.
Singh, Pushker
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description Amongst the illicit drugs cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis have been studied and documented well to cause myocardial infarction by different mechanisms but there is very sparse data available on myocardial involvement after heroin abuse. We report a young man who developed acute myocardial injury after heroin inhalation and alcohol binge drinking. Heroin induced cardio toxic effect and vasospasm compounded by alcohol were suspected to be the cause of this.
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spelling pubmed-34872832012-11-05 Acute myocardial involvement after heroin inhalation Karoli, Ritu Fatima, J. Singh, Pushker Kazmi, Khursheed I. J Pharmacol Pharmacother Case Report Amongst the illicit drugs cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis have been studied and documented well to cause myocardial infarction by different mechanisms but there is very sparse data available on myocardial involvement after heroin abuse. We report a young man who developed acute myocardial injury after heroin inhalation and alcohol binge drinking. Heroin induced cardio toxic effect and vasospasm compounded by alcohol were suspected to be the cause of this. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3487283/ /pubmed/23129970 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.99448 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23129970
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