Cardiac and Systemic Thrombus Caused by Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is an increasing concern all over the world especially in the United States. Methamphetamine have been well established to cause elevated body temperature, irregular heartbeat, seizures, and heart disease. We present a case of ventricular thrombus with systemic emboli in a patient with di...

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Autores principales: Eliveha, John, Vindhyal, Shravani, Vindhyal, Mohinder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31089429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5083624
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spelling pubmed-64760482019-05-14 Cardiac and Systemic Thrombus Caused by Drug Abuse Eliveha, John Vindhyal, Shravani Vindhyal, Mohinder Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Drug abuse is an increasing concern all over the world especially in the United States. Methamphetamine have been well established to cause elevated body temperature, irregular heartbeat, seizures, and heart disease. We present a case of ventricular thrombus with systemic emboli in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy after methamphetamine use. Hindawi 2019-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6476048/ /pubmed/31089429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5083624 Text en Copyright © 2019 John Eliveha et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cardiac and Systemic Thrombus Caused by Drug Abuse
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