Chest pain secondary to cocaine use.
Chest pain in adolescents and younger children is most often benign, and cardiac causes are rare. We present a 16-year-old with chest pain temporally related to cocaine use and discuss the relationship between cocaine use and acute myocardial infarction that has been seen in the adult population. Pediatricians and emergency physicians should consider cocaine abuse in the evaluation of an adolescent with chest pain.
Woodward
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Emergency Department, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Selbst
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D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003042:Cocaine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications*
D003042:Cocaine