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Acute Myocardical Infarction due toDelirium tremens
- Source :
- Cardiology. 92:144-144
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- S. Karger AG, 1999.
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Abstract
- A 36-year-old patient with normal-appearing coronary arteries suffered an acute Q-wave myocardial infarction during acute alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens. Sympathetic hyperactivity with coronary spasm and increased platelet reactivity are probably the underlying mechanisms.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Myocardial Infarction
Coronary Vasospasm
Infarction
ACUTE ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Electrocardiography
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Pharmacology (medical)
Myocardial infarction
Delirium tremens
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.disease
Pathophysiology
nervous system diseases
Coronary arteries
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Echocardiography
Cardiology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Complication
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14219751 and 00086312
- Volume :
- 92
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cardiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1e365608a89daebcbaf0e2c6a877fab
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000006962