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- Title
Acute coronary syndrome due to midazolam use: Kounis syndrome during a transurethral prostatectomy.
- Authors
Ateş, Ahmet Hakan; Kul, Selim
- Abstract
Developments in the drugs industry are leading to more rare drug side effects being encountered in clinical practice. Of these side effects, allergic reactions and hypersensitivity are seen in the usage of a large group of drugs such as antibiotics, analgesics, antineoplastics, contrast agents, corticosteroids, intravenous anesthetics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and proton pump inhibitors. One important result of these reactions is acute coronary syndrome, which may have serious life-threatening results. This syndrome was first described in 1991 by Kounis as an ‘allergic angina syndrome progressing to acute myocardial infarction’, and thereafter called ‘allergic myocardial infarction’. This case report presents a 70-year-old male who had angina and dyspnea after administration of midazolam at the beginning of a transurethral prostatectomy operation.
- Publication
Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology / Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2015, Vol 43, Issue 6, p558
- ISSN
1016-5169
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5543/tkda.2015.44567