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Ephedrine abuse causing acute myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Cookings Jerome G L,
Brown Michael
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138845.x
Subject(s) - ephedrine , amphetamine , myocardial infarction , medicine , anesthesia , cardiology , dopamine
“On the street”, the more expensive illegal psychostimulants, such as cocaine or amphetamine, may be mixed with or substituted for cheaper drugs such as ephedrine — with added risk to the user. We report diffuse myocardial injury in a 25‐year‐old man who presented with pulmonary oedema after intravenously injecting himself with ephedrine, believing it to be amphetamine.