Sudden death in cocaine abusers

European Heart Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 271-273

  Lange, Richard A ^a   Hillis, L David ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; COCAINE; HOMOCOCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPHORIA; EDITORIAL; EUPHORIA; EUROPE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QT PROLONGATION; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; SMOKING; SOUTH AMERICA; SPAIN; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DEATH, SUDDEN; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76349110731     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp503     Document Type: Editorial

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