Acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest in a patient receiving paclitaxel. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A 68-year-old man suffered an acute myocardial infarction while receiving an intravenous infusion of paclitaxel. Coronary angiograms revealed only mild plaquing of the infarct-related artery without significant angiographic obstructions. The authors postulate that paclitaxel may have caused coronary vasospasm and myocardial infarction.

publication date

  • March 15, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Heart Arrest
  • Heart Conduction System
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Paclitaxel

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0037444997

PubMed ID

  • 12677287

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 19

issue

  • 3