Population
A patient maintained on methadone for opioid-dependency
Design
Case_report
Authors
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Potential TdP risk with cocaine in methadone patients warrants vigilance; leaves open need for systematic evaluation of this interaction.
Cocaine use may precipitate torsade de pointes in opioid-dependent patients on methadone maintenance therapy due to shared mechanisms of QT prolongation.
Krantz et al. (2005) studied this question.
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