Another Pseudoephedrine Carditis

Report:

Sinus tachycardia 102/min

PR interval 0.20”

VEB

Nonspecific ST/T changes

Comment:

This patient’s changes are more severe than those of the previous case. He had been taking more pseudoephedrine for longer. Nevertheless, the ECG normalised within two months (178a below).

Neither patient had enzyme evidence of actual myocardial damage. This was decades before the era of troponins.

178a.

179. 51 year old lady with COAD

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