Cardiotoxic Effects of Raw Opium

While opioid drug toxicity and side effects of long-term opioid use during medical care are well studied, there is little information regarding effects of ingestion of raw opium. Characterization of the effects to a particular alkaloid is difficult since raw opium contains a number of alkaloids. Her...

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Autores principales: Garg, Piyush, Hitawala, Asif Ali, Agarwal, Manoj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29422734
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_427_17
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description While opioid drug toxicity and side effects of long-term opioid use during medical care are well studied, there is little information regarding effects of ingestion of raw opium. Characterization of the effects to a particular alkaloid is difficult since raw opium contains a number of alkaloids. Here, we present a case of poisoning due to ingestion of raw opium leading to severe myocardial suppression.
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spelling pubmed-57930232018-02-08 Cardiotoxic Effects of Raw Opium Garg, Piyush Hitawala, Asif Ali Agarwal, Manoj Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report While opioid drug toxicity and side effects of long-term opioid use during medical care are well studied, there is little information regarding effects of ingestion of raw opium. Characterization of the effects to a particular alkaloid is difficult since raw opium contains a number of alkaloids. Here, we present a case of poisoning due to ingestion of raw opium leading to severe myocardial suppression. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5793023/ /pubmed/29422734 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_427_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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