Cocaine intoxication, delirium, death in body packer

✍ Scribed by David Bar-Or; Linda Wahby

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(82)80377-6

✦ Synopsis

with interest a case report on Effort Thrombosis of the Subclavian Vein reported recently in Annals (10:596-599, November 1981).

Options for care of this disease, as discussed in the article, range from heparinization to surgery. I would suggest that there might be a role for use of thrombolytic therapy with either streptokinase or urokinase, and I would like to ask the authors of this case report if they considered this treat-of Subclavian Vein? ment modality and if they are aware of reports of the use of thrombolytic therapy for this type of problem.