2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2007.02.003
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Interpretation of lesions of the cardiac conduction system in cocaine-related fatalities

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“…Finally, increase in DFT may be due to the cocaine‐induced myocardial abnormalities such as left ventricular hypertrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and myocarditis resulting in leucocytic infiltration with contraction band formations 7 . In addition, postmortem histopathology of the conduction system of the heart in chronic cocaine abusers has shown severe thickening of the atrioventricular node artery, intranodal and perinodal fibrosis, and microscopic foci of chronic inflammatory infiltration 11 . These diffuse structural changes in the myocardial geometry may facilitate new propagating wavefronts during the post shock isoelectric window period, thus perpetuating the VF culminating in elevated DFT.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Finally, increase in DFT may be due to the cocaine‐induced myocardial abnormalities such as left ventricular hypertrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and myocarditis resulting in leucocytic infiltration with contraction band formations 7 . In addition, postmortem histopathology of the conduction system of the heart in chronic cocaine abusers has shown severe thickening of the atrioventricular node artery, intranodal and perinodal fibrosis, and microscopic foci of chronic inflammatory infiltration 11 . These diffuse structural changes in the myocardial geometry may facilitate new propagating wavefronts during the post shock isoelectric window period, thus perpetuating the VF culminating in elevated DFT.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%