Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder

Medical and ethical dilemmas surrounding endocarditis and cardiac valve replacements related to intravenous drug use have been described often. Less well-described are dilemmas associated with pacemaker implantation in such patients. We describe a patient with a substance use disorder for whom a pac...

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Autores principales: Sridhara, Srilekha, Mayer, Patricia A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30254816
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3027
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spelling pubmed-61507552018-09-25 Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder Sridhara, Srilekha Mayer, Patricia A Cureus Cardiology Medical and ethical dilemmas surrounding endocarditis and cardiac valve replacements related to intravenous drug use have been described often. Less well-described are dilemmas associated with pacemaker implantation in such patients. We describe a patient with a substance use disorder for whom a pacemaker was medically indicated. Cureus 2018-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6150755/ /pubmed/30254816 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3027 Text en Copyright © 2018, Sridhara et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder
title_full Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder
title_fullStr Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder
title_short Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Pacemaker Implantation in a Patient with Substance Use Disorder
title_sort medical and ethical concerns regarding pacemaker implantation in a patient with substance use disorder
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150755/
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