Key result
A 41-year-old male developed rare cocaine-induced triple vessel coronary artery disease and acute inferolateral STEMI, which progressed to fatal cardiogenic shock and multiorgan failure despite urgent PCI.
Why the study?
Very few cases of cocaine-induced multivessel coronary artery disease have been reported.
Case Report (n=1)
Cocaine use can rarely induce severe triple vessel coronary artery occlusion leading to fatal cardiogenic shock and multiorgan failure despite successful revascularization.
Cocaine-induced triple-vessel STEMI can prove fatal in young adults despite PCI; extends limited case reports on its aggressive course.
Cocaine-associated coronary artery disease and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have been well described in the literature. However, very few cases of cocaine-induced multivessel coronary artery disease have been reported. We report a very rare case of cocaine-associated triple vessel coronary artery disease in a 41-year-old male patient. The patient underwent urgent catheterization that revealed occlusion of his proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD), mid-circumflex artery, and right coronary artery with angioplasty and stent placement. His hospitalization course was complicated by cardiogenic shock, shock liver, acute renal failure, and sepsis.
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Patel et al. (2023) conducted a case report in Cocaine-induced triple vessel coronary artery disease (n=1). Cocaine was evaluated on Clinical outcome. A 41-year-old male developed rare cocaine-induced triple vessel coronary artery disease and acute inferolateral STEMI, which progressed to fatal cardiogenic shock and multiorgan failure despite urgent PCI.
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