Crack Cocaine Coronary Artery Disease

Contemporary Reviews In Cardiovascular Medicine
Cocaine Route, % Nasal Insufflation Smoked (Crack) Intravenous 246 Presented to ejection fraction 30%).47 Thus, a manifestation of coronary artery disease can explain cocaine-induced ventricular dys- … Read Document

SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Stimulants (Cocaine/Amphetamines/PCP/Caffeine)
•Peruvian Lady •Crack Cocaine (Candy, Rock, Freebase, Scud, Pebbles, Wash) resulting in cerebral infarction and hemorrhage, ischemic coronary artery disease, pancreatitis, and renal … Document Viewer

United States Court Of Appeals
Intent to distribute crack cocaine and distribution of crack cocaine. Over Johnson’s ventricle function and coronary artery disease. He underwent a coronary angiogram … Access This Document

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cocaine use D. Q wave myocardial infarction occurs only with smoked ’crack’ or intravenous cocaine use E. Underlying coronary artery disease is the principal risk for sudden death associated with cocaine use … Fetch Document

Dissection Of The Coronary Arteries Associated With Cocaine Abuse
Nary dissections are: coronary artery disease, preg-nancy or Afonso L, Mohammad T, Thatai D. Crack whips the heart: a re-view of the cardiovascular toxicity of cocaine. Am J Cardiol 2007;100:1040-3. 8. Buys EM, Suttorp MJ, Morshuis WJ, Plokker HW. Extension of a spontaneous coronary artery dissection … Document Viewer

Myocardial Infarction In A 24-year-old Woman
Especially with “crackcocaine, the highly addictive freebase form of the drug.6 Possible tive aneurysmatic coronary artery disease: angiographic and clinical follow-up report. … Access Doc

EDITORIAL Exposure Opportunity To Substances Of Abuse WG De …
Curaçao Patients with Coronary Artery Disease have a Higher Prevalence of the HFE C282Y Factors significantly associated with HIV infection were use of crack cocaine, low … Doc Viewer

Current Concepts Of Cerebrovascular Disease
Reprinted from Current Concepts of Cerebrovascular Disease— Stroke 1987;22:25-30. logical complications, including death. 811 Dealers of cocaine prefer to sell crack instead of the powder unpublished study indicate tha ca causnt cocaine e coronary artery spasm in normal individuals, resulting … Fetch Doc

873 ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE • August 2000, Volume 7 …
Seventy-seven percent admitted to cocaine use in the preceding 24 hours: crack, 85%; IV, 2%; nasal, Family history of coronary artery disease 86 (34%) Diabetes mellitus 14 (6%) … Fetch Doc

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Case Study: Emergency Medicine Chest Pain In A Previously …
disease. Social History:X is married and is a banker, working in Cardiovascular myocardial ischaemia, coronary artery spasm, Free base: Known as crack cocaine. It can be smoked and is considered to be the most … Document Viewer

Les Intoxications à La cocaïne
Now smoking alkaloid “crack” most common III. Pharmacology Cocaine is benzoy l m e t hy l e c out underlying coronary artery disease c. Platelet aggregation • Alpha-adrenergic mediated … Fetch Here

Author, Year Of Publication And Dates Of Recruitment
A list patients admitted with a history of chest pain and cocaine use was generated using ICD-9 codes. And a second list generated by cross referencing MI and coronary artery disease with cocaine use. 75 admissions but only 70 charts available for review. 25 smoked crack cocaine; 24 used intranasal … Fetch Content

Lessons For Health Homes Identified Through The Chronic …
? Hypertension (HTN), coronary artery disease ( CAD), history of depression; smoker; chemical dependency: crack cocaine and alcohol abuse (ETOH) for … Content Retrieval

Sudeep Bansal And James P. Morgan – Open Access Vascular …
crack cocaine use in a previously healthy 23-year-old woman. Am J Med 1991; 91: 92-4. coronary artery disease: evidence for adrenergically mediated al terations in coronary artery tone. … Get Document

REVIEW Cocaine And The Heart
Existent vascular disease or other abnormalities are not a prerequisite for the development of cocaine related cardiovascular complications.5 The use of crack cocaine can lead to acute aortic dissection.60 during coronary artery occlusion: cocaine exacerbates the autonomic … Content Retrieval

NATURAL CAUSES OF SUDDEN DEATH
Coronary artery disease. accounts for the . majority (about 90%) of cardiovascular deaths, and is divided into The cardiotoxicity of cocaine is not limited to massive doses of the drug, and underlying heart disease is not a prerequisite for cocaine-related cardiac deaths. … Fetch This Document

Medical Conditions
Aortitis (e.g. Takayasu saortitis, tertiary syphilis);. iatrogenic (e.g. during angiography or angioplasty);. trauma;. crack cocaine. Cardiac angiography: Allows differentiation from other causes of angina, and to assess for concomitant coronary artery disease (50%of patients with severe … Document Viewer

Expert Consensus Document On Beta-Adrenergic Receptor …
With coronary disease.6,7 We have read with interest the consensus coronary syndrome related to the use of cocaine (or crack) can catheterization and were given cocaine for diagnostic purposes, confirming a decrease in coronary artery diameters; subsequent … Access Doc