Abdominal complications from crack cocaine
| Autor: | P A Kane, R A M Camprodon, Y.C. Chan, D M Scott-Coombes |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Letter Valsalva Maneuver medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Cocaine related disorders Diagnosis Differential Cocaine-Related Disorders Pneumoperitoneum - chemically induced - radiography Text mining Pneumoperitoneum mental disorders Valsalva maneuver medicine Humans Valsalva manoeuvre Crack cocaine Crack Cocaine - adverse effects media_common business.industry Addiction Cocaine-Related Disorders - complications Smoking General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery body regions Tomography x ray computed Smoking - adverse effects Anesthesia Tomography X-Ray Computed business Research Article |
| Popis: | Not only is cocaine a powerfully addictive and dangerous drug of abuse, the use of the purified cocaine derivative crack has also reached epidemic proportions. Apart from causing fatal cardiorespiratory complications, crack cocaine is capable of producing surgical emergencies, which may or may not be associated with the pharmacology of cocaine itself. This is a report of crack-induced pneumoperitoneum, the mechanism of which seemed to be related to the prolonged Valsalva manoeuvre during crack smoking. Other differential diagnoses of crack related pneumoperitoneum are also discussed. link_to_OA_fulltext |
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