Role of toxicological determinations of amphetamines and cannabinoids in hair of adolescent patients in cardiologic diagnostic management

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-12

  Kłys, Małgorzata ^a   Szydłowski, Lesław ^b   Rojek, Sebastian ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

cardiac diagnosis; hair sample; Narcotics

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG HAIR LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THORAX PAIN; TOXICITY TESTING; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; AMPHETAMINES; CANNABINOIDS; HAIR; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84857493186     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951111000667     Document Type: Article

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