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Acute myocardial infarction following gemcitabine therapy--a case report
T Kalapura1, M Krishnamurthy, C V Reddy
1Department of Internal Medicine, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, USA.
Angiology
|December 28, 1999
Abstract:
The authors report a case of acute myocardial infarction following gemcitabine infusion and electrocardiographic abnormalities suggestive of ischemia on rechallenge of the drug. The possible underlying mechanisms of ischemia and/or infarction and the strategies for prevention are discussed.