Open AccessAcute myocardial involvement after heroin inhalation
Author(s) -
Ritu Karoli,
Jalees Fatima,
Pushker Singh,
Khursheed I Kazmi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 0976-5018
pISSN - 0976-500X
DOI - 10.4103/0976-500x.99448
Subject(s) - heroin , medicine , cannabis , myocardial infarction , inhalation , binge drinking , anesthesia , drug , pharmacology , emergency medicine , psychiatry , poison control , injury prevention
Amongst the illicit drugs cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis have been studied and documented well to cause myocardial infarction by different mechanisms but there is very sparse data available on myocardial involvement after heroin abuse. We report a young man who developed acute myocardial injury after heroin inhalation and alcohol binge drinking. Heroin induced cardio toxic effect and vasospasm compounded by alcohol were suspected to be the cause of this.