BACKGROUND: Recently we can use a new family of serological markers to objective myocardial damage with hig sensibility and specificity. One of these markers is T troponin (c-TNT). Some cocaine abusers have chest pain during drug consumption due to myocardial ischemia produced by the drug. OBJECTIVE: To study if in the chest pain appeared after cocaine consumption a c-TNT increased is objective, showing myocardial cellular damage. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 65 patients; 35 cocaine abusers that were admitted into the emergency room for chest pain after cocaine consumption and 30 patients with no coronary chest pain. To all of them were determined c-TNT and CK. RESULTS: An increase in c-TNT or CK was not observed in both groups. CONCLUSION: We don't observe an increase in c-TNT in the group of cocaine abusers that evidence myocardial cellular damage.
BACKGROUND: Recently we can use a new family of serological markers to objective myocardial damage with hig sensibility and specificity. One of these markers is T troponin (c-TNT). Some cocaine abusers have chest pain during drug consumption due to myocardial ischemia produced by the drug. OBJECTIVE: To study if in the chest pain appeared after cocaine consumption a c-TNT increased is objective, showing myocardial cellular damage. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied 65 patients; 35 cocaine abusers that were admitted into the emergency room for chest pain after cocaine consumption and 30 patients with no coronary chest pain. To all of them were determined c-TNT and CK. RESULTS: An increase in c-TNT or CK was not observed in both groups. CONCLUSION: We don't observe an increase in c-TNT in the group of cocaine abusers that evidence myocardial cellular damage.
Authors: Elise D Riley; Priscilla Y Hsue; Eric Vittinghoff; Alan H B Wu; Phillip O Coffin; Peter K Moore; Kara L Lynch Journal: Drug Alcohol Depend Date: 2017-01-19 Impact factor: 4.492