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Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism

Cocaine is a highly addictive recreational drug that is a well-known cause of a variety of disease processes such as stroke, myocardial infarction, and even sudden cardiac death. In current literature, venous thrombosis secondary to cocaine abuse remains under-examined, while the harmful effects of...

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Autores principales: Griffin, Daniel, Cha, Suji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6991151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025439
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6520
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description Cocaine is a highly addictive recreational drug that is a well-known cause of a variety of disease processes such as stroke, myocardial infarction, and even sudden cardiac death. In current literature, venous thrombosis secondary to cocaine abuse remains under-examined, while the harmful effects of the drug within the arterial vasculature are well-studied and understood. Our case presents a patient who was found to have a large pulmonary embolism and pulmonary infarction after several days of cocaine abuse. This report serves to raise awareness of a potentially life-threatening effect of this drug and to encourage prompt diagnosis and treatment of cocaine-induced pulmonary embolism.
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spelling pubmed-69911512020-02-05 Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism Griffin, Daniel Cha, Suji Cureus Internal Medicine Cocaine is a highly addictive recreational drug that is a well-known cause of a variety of disease processes such as stroke, myocardial infarction, and even sudden cardiac death. In current literature, venous thrombosis secondary to cocaine abuse remains under-examined, while the harmful effects of the drug within the arterial vasculature are well-studied and understood. Our case presents a patient who was found to have a large pulmonary embolism and pulmonary infarction after several days of cocaine abuse. This report serves to raise awareness of a potentially life-threatening effect of this drug and to encourage prompt diagnosis and treatment of cocaine-induced pulmonary embolism. Cureus 2019-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6991151/ /pubmed/32025439 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6520 Text en Copyright © 2019, Griffin 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_fullStr Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism
title_full_unstemmed Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism
title_short Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism
title_sort cocaine: a provoking risk factor in venous thromboembolism
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6991151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32025439
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