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Myocardial infarction associated with cocaine abuse
C E Wilkins1, V S Mathur, R C Ty
1Clayton Foundation for Research Cardiovascular Laboratories of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas 77225, USA.
Texas Heart Institute Journal
|December 1, 1985
Abstract:
We report a patient who sustained a myocardial infarction after inhaling cocaine. He developed a persistent wall motion defect that was present 18 months after the acute event despite resolution of electrocardiographic evidence of infarction.