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Fatal case of delayed repolarization due to cocaine abuse and global ischemia
Kamran Riaz1, Peter A McCullough
1Departments of Basic Science and Internal Medicine, Cardiology Section, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
|April 10, 2003
Abstract:
When a previously healthy, middle-aged patient presents with apparent seizures, what should alert the physician to the possibility of underlying cardiac disease? This report describes a case of long QT syndrome, initially presenting as seizures, which expressed itself at an atypically advanced age as a result of cocaine use, global myocardial ischemia, and ventricular tachycardia.