Thoratec Left Ventricular Assist Device Removal After Toxic Myocarditis

Leontiadis, Evangelos; Morshuis, Michiel; Arusoglu, Latif; Cobaugh, D.; Köerfer, Reiner; El‐Banayosy, Aly

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.092

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“… 18 There were no other causes for myocarditis, including infectious, uncovered by these authors, and no adulterants were identified in these patients’ consumed marijuana. 16 – 18 Unlike our patient, all three of these previously reported patients recovered.…”

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“…The link between cannabis use and myocarditis has been documented in multiple teenagers and young adults. 16 – 18 In 2008 Leontiadis reported a 16-year-old with severe heart failure requiring a left ventricular assist device, associated with biopsy-diagnosed myocarditis. 16 The authors attributed the heart failure to cannabis use of unknown chronicity.…”

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“… 16 – 18 In 2008 Leontiadis reported a 16-year-old with severe heart failure requiring a left ventricular assist device, associated with biopsy-diagnosed myocarditis. 16 The authors attributed the heart failure to cannabis use of unknown chronicity. 16 In 2014 Rodríguez-Castro reported a 29-year-old male who had two episodes of myopericarditis several months apart.…”

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“… 16 The authors attributed the heart failure to cannabis use of unknown chronicity. 16 In 2014 Rodríguez-Castro reported a 29-year-old male who had two episodes of myopericarditis several months apart. 17 Each episode occurred within two days of smoking cannabis.…”

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Pediatric Death Due to Myocarditis After Exposure to Cannabis

Nappe¹,

Hoyte²

2017

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Since marijuana legalization, pediatric exposures to cannabis have increased.1 To date, pediatric deaths from cannabis exposure have not been reported. The authors report an 11-month-old male who, following cannabis exposure, presented with central nervous system depression after seizure, and progressed to cardiac arrest and died. Myocarditis was diagnosed post-mortem and cannabis exposure was confirmed. Given the temporal relationship of these two rare occurrences – cannabis exposure and sudden death secondary to myocarditis in an 11-month-old – as well as histological consistency with drug-induced myocarditis without confirmed alternate causes, and prior reported cases of cannabis-associated myocarditis, a possible relationship exists between cannabis exposure in this child and myocarditis leading to death. In areas where marijuana is commercially available or decriminalized, the authors urge clinicians to preventively counsel parents and to include cannabis exposure in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with myocarditis.

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Pediatric Death Due to Myocarditis After Exposure to Cannabis

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2017

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“…The possible association of the patient's findings and marijuana should be reminded [4,5]. Moreover, is it possible that methylphenidate and marijuana have additive effect and caused the symptoms?…”

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