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Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stenting was reported as a catheter-based intervention for a case of cocaine-induced acute myocardial infarction.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report documents the use of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stenting for cocaine-induced acute myocardial infarction, which had not been previously reported in English literature at the time.
PCI feasible in one cocaine-induced MI case; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Cocaine-induced myocardial infarction has been well reported. Likewise, there are numerous reports of patients with cocaine-induced myocardial infarction being treated conservatively with nitroglycerin, verapamil, and thrombolytics. However, based on a Medline search from 1977 to 1998 (with the keywords cocaine and angioplasty), there have been no reports in English of cocaine-induced myocardial infarction being treated with catheter-based intervention. We report such a case, as well as review what is known about the pathophysiology of cocaine-induced coronary arteriopathy and myocardial infarction.
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Shah et al. (2000) conducted a case report in Cocaine-induced acute myocardial infarction (n=1). Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stenting was evaluated. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stenting was reported as a catheter-based intervention for a case of cocaine-induced acute myocardial infarction.
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