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Cocaine‐associated Chest Pain How Common Is Myocardial Infarction?

Jim Edward Weber, Carl R. Chudnofsky, Michael E. Boczar, Edward W. Boyer, Mark D. Wilkerson, Judd E. Hollander

Academic Emergency Medicine · 2000 · 151 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

The incidence of AMI was 6% in patients with cocaine-associated chest pain. This result is identical to that found in prior prospective studies.

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