Myocardial Degeneration in Chronic Solvent Abuse
- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medicine, Science and the Law
- Vol. 28 (3) , 217-218
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002580248802800308
Abstract
Chronic solvent abuse is leading to increasing reports of death from cardiac related causes. This case involves a 21-year-old man who died of acute heart failure. Histological examination of his heart showed extensive chronic damage of the myocardium. He had regularly and frequently abused solvents for five years.Keywords
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