Life Threatening Abdominal Complications following Cocaine Abuse

Drug misuse declared: findings from the 2003/4 British crime survey. Home Office Stat Bull May 2005

Pozner C.N. , Levine M. , Zane R. The cardiovascular effects of cocaine. J Emerg Med 2005; 29: 173–8

Haim D.Y. , Lippmann M.L. , Goldberg S.K. , Walkenstein M.D. The pulmonary complication of crack cocaine: a comprehensive review. Chest 1995; 107: 233–40

Feliciano D.V. , Ojukwu J.C. , Rozycki G.S. , The epidemic of cocaine-related juxtapyloric perforations: with a comment on the importance of testing for Helicobacter pylori. Ann Surg 1999; 229: 801–4

Kram H.B. , Hardin E. , Clark S.R. , Shoemaker W.C. Perforated ulcers related to smoking ‘crack’ cocaine. Am Surg 1992; 58: 293–4

Sudhakar CB , Al-Hakeem M. , Macarthur JD , Sumpio B.E. Mesenteric ischemia secondary to cocaine abuse: case reports and literature review. Am J Gastroenterol 1997; 92: 1053–4

Endress C. , Kling G.A. Cocaine-induced small-bowel perforation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1990; 154: 1346–7

Bellows C.F. , and Raafat A.M. The surgical abdomen associated with cocaine abuse. J Emerg Med 2002; 23: 383–6

Hoang M.P. , Lee E.L. , Anand A. Histologic spectrum of arterial and arteriolar lesions in acute and chronic cocaine-induced mesenteric ischemia: report of three cases and literature review. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22: 1404–10

Brown D.N. , Rosenholtz M.J. , Marshall J.B. Ischemic colitis related to cocaine abuse. Am J Gastroenterol 1994; 89: 1558–61

Sharma R. , Organ C.H. Jr. , Hirvela E.R. , Henderson V.J. Clinical observation of the temporal association between crack cocaine and duodenal ulcer perforation. Am J Surg 1997; 174: 629–32

Muniz A.E. , Evans T. Acute gastrointestinal manifestations associated with use of crack. Am J Emerg Med 2001; 19: 61–3

Linder J.D. , Monkemuller K.E. , Raijman I. , Johnson L. , Lazenby A.J. , Wilcox C.M. Cocaine-associated ischemic colitis. South Med J 2000; 93: 909–13