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J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) · Sep 2009
Editorial Case ReportsAcute inferior myocardial infarction due to cannabis smoking in a young man.
- Gonenc Kocabay, Mustafa Yildiz, Nilufer Eksi Duran, and Mehmet Ozkan.
- Kartal Kosuyolu Heart Education and Research Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey. gonenckocabay@yahoo.com
- J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown). 2009 Sep 1;10(9):669-70.
AbstractCannabis smoking, which has euphoric effects, is consistently increasing in Europe. Smoking cannabis is a rare trigger of acute myocardial infarction (MI) by inducing coronary artery spasm. Some cases who have thrombus formation in acute coronary artery and no serious atherosclerotic lesions have been reported in the literature. These cases had involved the left coronary artery. Although some cases were reported with MI after cannabis smoking, only two case reports with inferior MI after cannabis smoking were reported in the literature. The present report is of a young male patient who was affected by acute inferior MI half an hour after cannabis smoking.
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