Acute myocardial infarction following psoralen plus ultraviolet light therapy
Fuad Samadov1, Murat Sunbul, Ibrahim Sari
1Department of Cardiology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|June 18, 2013
Abstract:
Psoralen plus ultraviolet light therapy (PUVA) combines the administration of psoralen with an exposure to ultraviolet A radiation. Psoralen plus ultraviolet light therapy is used for the treatment of a variety of skin diseases including morphea and generally considered as a safe treatment modality. We present here a rare case of 65-year-old woman presented with acute myocardial infarction following PUVA session, which has not been reported previously.
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