Severe Myocardial Infarction Caused by Excessive Cannabis Consumption

The cardiovascular effects of cannabis are not well known. Cannabis use has been shown to cause arrhythmia, including ventricular tachycardia, sudden death, and increase in the risk of myocardial infarction (MI). We report a 62-year-old woman with chronic cannabis abuse inducing MI complicated by ca...

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Autores principales: Bougrine, Ramia, Boutaybi, Mohamed, Boulouiz, Soumia, Elouafi, Noha, Bazid, Zakaria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33903847
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14643
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author Bougrine, Ramia
Boutaybi, Mohamed
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Elouafi, Noha
Bazid, Zakaria
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description The cardiovascular effects of cannabis are not well known. Cannabis use has been shown to cause arrhythmia, including ventricular tachycardia, sudden death, and increase in the risk of myocardial infarction (MI). We report a 62-year-old woman with chronic cannabis abuse inducing MI complicated by cardiogenic shock, chronic dilated cardiomyopathy, and atrial fibrillation.
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spelling pubmed-80640372021-04-25 Severe Myocardial Infarction Caused by Excessive Cannabis Consumption Bougrine, Ramia Boutaybi, Mohamed Boulouiz, Soumia Elouafi, Noha Bazid, Zakaria Cureus Cardiology The cardiovascular effects of cannabis are not well known. Cannabis use has been shown to cause arrhythmia, including ventricular tachycardia, sudden death, and increase in the risk of myocardial infarction (MI). We report a 62-year-old woman with chronic cannabis abuse inducing MI complicated by cardiogenic shock, chronic dilated cardiomyopathy, and atrial fibrillation. Cureus 2021-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8064037/ /pubmed/33903847 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14643 Text en Copyright © 2021, Bougrine et al. https://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_short Severe Myocardial Infarction Caused by Excessive Cannabis Consumption
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topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064037/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14643
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