• J Emerg Med · Nov 2003

    Case Reports

    Acute myocardial infarction as a complication of clonidine withdrawal.

    • John Simic, Stephen Kishineff, Richard Goldberg, and William Gifford.
    • Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California 90033, USA.
    • J Emerg Med. 2003 Nov 1; 25 (4): 399-402.

    AbstractAbrupt withdrawal from clonidine therapy is a well-known cause of hyperadrenergic symptoms, but reports of acute myocardial infarction are extremely rare. We present the case of an 86-year-old woman who developed severe hypertension and a myocardial infarction 36 h after terminating her therapy of clonidine, 0.4 mg/day. Symptoms quickly responded to the administration of labetolol and diazepam. Subsequent cardiac catheterization showed no evidence of coronary occlusion, suggesting that excessive myocardial oxygen demand was responsible for the infarction.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…