Key result
Cocaine use is linked to acute chest pain and potential MI in adolescents.
Why the study?
Chest pain in adolescents is usually benign with rare cardiac causes, but the relationship between cocaine use and acute myocardial infarction in this population is not well described.
Case Report (n=1)
Pediatricians and emergency physicians should consider cocaine abuse in the evaluation of adolescents presenting with chest pain.
Alerts clinicians to possible cocaine link in adolescent chest pain; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without confirmatory data.
Chest pain in adolescents and younger children is most often benign, and cardiac causes are rare. We present a 16-year-old with chest pain temporally related to cocaine use and discuss the relationship between cocaine use and acute myocardial infarction that has been seen in the adult population. Pediatricians and emergency physicians should consider cocaine abuse in the evaluation of an adolescent with chest pain.
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WOODWARD et al. (1987) conducted a case report in Chest pain (n=1). Cocaine use was evaluated on Chest pain. Cocaine use should be considered in the evaluation of adolescents presenting with chest pain, as it can be temporally related to acute cardiac symptoms.
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