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Aortic Dissection Health Shared Official

Drugs & Aortic Dissection

Cocaine is known to be associated with AD. Professor Mussa explains how the use of cocaine leads to changes in BP and eventually acute AD. This can also include all drugs that lead to BP changes after use

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So, the role of drugs in the aortic section has been studied with one class of illegal or illicit drugs is CNS stimulant or cocaine. So cocaine or crack cocaine has been linked to blood pressure spikes, which then would lead to aortic dissection. So for those patients who turn up in the emergency department after using cocaine, that will potentially be the main cause of the dissection.

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