Emergency (Dec 2016)

Acute Myocardial Infarction following Naltrexone Consumption; a Case Report

  • Bita Dadpour,
  • Arash Gholoobi,
  • Shahrad Tajoddini,
  • Amir Habibi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22037/emergency.v5i1.13143
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. e45 – e45

Abstract

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Cardiovascular effects of opioid withdrawal have long been studied. It was reported that patients with underlying ischemic heart disease and atherosclerotic vessels may be complicated by a sudden physical and emotional stress due to withdrawal syndrome. But some other believes sudden increase in catecholamine level as a sympathetic overflow might effect on heart with and without underlying ischemia. In the current study, a patient on methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) who experienced myocardial infarction (MI) after taking naltrexone was described.

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