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Knowing meth, cocaine, heroine ect are a danger to the heart.. is it possible to get a heart attack, stroke, or infarct later during recovery? if so, why
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Unlikely: Unlikely. Usually occurs during active use.
Answered 11/12/2013
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Yes: If you injected the drug under unsanitary conditions and bacteria settled on your heart valves and colonized there you could send septic emboli to different parts of your body, especially your brain. Archneur.Jamanetwork.Com/article.Aspx?Articleid=1151759 multiple septic brain emboli in infectious endocarditis. ... Cardiac ultrasonography showed mitral valve vegetations consistent with infective.
Answered 11/14/2013
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