Cocaine Induced Myocardial Infarction

The American Heart Association (AHA) early this month (April 2008) has just came out with a guidelines on the management of cocaine induced myocardial infarction.Cocaine can cause myocardial ischemia because it blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine at the presynaptic adrenergic terminals, thus results in an accumulation of catecholamines at the postsynaptic receptor (powerful