heroin has been researched along with Tachycardia* in 4 studies
4 other study(ies) available for heroin and Tachycardia
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Cotton fever: an evanescent process mimicking sepsis in an intravenous drug abuser.
Although many complications of intravenous drug abuse are well described, "cotton fever" has had little mention in recent medical literature. Cotton fever is street terminology for the post-injection fever experienced by many drug users after "shooting up" with heroin reclaimed from a previously used cotton filter.. We report on a 22-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug abuse with fever 30 min after injecting heroin. He was intensely diaphoretic, tachycardic, and febrile. His workup was negative for any infectious etiology and he later admitted to reusing the same cotton balls for heroin filtration several times over in order to preserve more of the drug.. Although it is usually a benign situation, cotton fever can have a dramatic clinical and hematologic course. We present a typical case of cotton fever followed by a description of the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of this entity. Topics: Cotton Fiber; Diagnosis, Differential; Equipment Reuse; Fever; Filtration; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Male; Narcotics; Sepsis; Substance Abuse, Intravenous; Tachycardia; Young Adult | 2013 |
Street drugs possibly tainted with clenbuterol.
Topics: Adrenergic beta-Agonists; Adult; Clenbuterol; Diagnosis, Differential; Drug Contamination; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Hypokalemia; Illicit Drugs; Male; Tachycardia | 2008 |
[Nursing care of abstinent patients with heroin addiction].
Topics: Adult; Chlorpromazine; Female; Fever; Heroin; Heroin Dependence; Humans; Male; Promethazine; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Tachycardia | 1993 |
Speedballs: a new cause of intraoperative tachycardia and hypertension.
Topics: Adult; Cocaine; Heroin; Humans; Hypertension; Illicit Drugs; Intraoperative Complications; Male; Self Medication; Tachycardia | 1991 |