Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation after recreational marijuana smoking: Another "holiday heart"?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 135, Issue 27-28, 2005, Pages 412-414

  Charbonney, Emmanuel ^a   Sztajzel, Juan Marc ^a   Poletti, Pierre Alexandre ^a   Rutschmann, Olivier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Marijuana (cannabis); Young patients

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYNCOPE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 24144469337     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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