Coronary arteriographic findings in cocaine abuse-induced myocardial infarction.

Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn

Likoff Cardiovascular Institute, Hahnemann University and Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192.

Published: April 1988

A 31-year-old black man was admitted with an acute anterior myocardial infarction 20 minutes after IV cocaine abuse. Cardiac catheterization showed a totally occluded left anterior descending artery. Intracoronary and intravenous streptokinase resulted in thrombolysis: repeat angiography showed a normal anterior descending.

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