Acute Myocardial Infarction following Naltrexone Consumption; a Case Report

Cardiovascular effects of opioid withdrawal have long been studied. It was reported that patients with underlying ischemic heart disease and atherosclerotic vessels may be complicated by a sudden physical and emotional stress due to withdrawal syndrome. But some other believes sudden increase in cat...

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Autores principales: Dadpour, Bita, Gholoobi, Arash, Tajoddini, Shahrad, Habibi, Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286852
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description Cardiovascular effects of opioid withdrawal have long been studied. It was reported that patients with underlying ischemic heart disease and atherosclerotic vessels may be complicated by a sudden physical and emotional stress due to withdrawal syndrome. But some other believes sudden increase in catecholamine level as a sympathetic overflow might effect on heart with and without underlying ischemia. In the current study, a patient on methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) who experienced myocardial infarction (MI) after taking naltrexone was described.
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spelling pubmed-53259162017-03-10 Acute Myocardial Infarction following Naltrexone Consumption; a Case Report Dadpour, Bita Gholoobi, Arash Tajoddini, Shahrad Habibi, Amir Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Cardiovascular effects of opioid withdrawal have long been studied. It was reported that patients with underlying ischemic heart disease and atherosclerotic vessels may be complicated by a sudden physical and emotional stress due to withdrawal syndrome. But some other believes sudden increase in catecholamine level as a sympathetic overflow might effect on heart with and without underlying ischemia. In the current study, a patient on methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) who experienced myocardial infarction (MI) after taking naltrexone was described. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017 2017-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5325916/ /pubmed/28286852 Text en © Copyright (2017) Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Acute Myocardial Infarction following Naltrexone Consumption; a Case Report
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