NIDA Conference Report on Cardiopulmonary Complications of “Crack” Cocaine Use

Cocaine-Induced Coronary-Artery Vasoconstriction

1989 • 633 citations

The effects of acute and chronic cocaine use on the heart.

1992 • 412 citations

Cocaine-related medical problems: Consecutive series of 233 patients

1990 • 358 citations

Cardiovascular effects of cocaine: An autopsy study of 40 patients

1988 • 325 citations

Prospective Multicenter Evaluation of Cocaine‐associated Chest Pain

1994 • 310 citations

The Management of Cocaine-Associated Myocardial Ischemia

1995 • 283 citations

Increase in atherosclerosis and adventitial mast cells in cocaine abusers: An alternative mechanism of cocaine-associated coronary vasospasm and thrombosis

1991 • 218 citations

The Pulmonary Complications of Crack Cocaine

1995 • 206 citations

Cocaine potentiates HIV-1 replication in human peripheral blood mononuclear cell cocultures. Involvement of transforming growth factor-beta.

1991 • 168 citations

Cocaine-Associated Myocardial Infarction

1995 • 150 citations

Pulmonary Status of Habitual Cocaine Smokers

1992 • 121 citations

A review of the respiratory effects of smoking cocaine

1989 • 111 citations

Pulmonary Dysfunction in 'Freebase' Cocaine Users

1984 • 108 citations

Platelet alpha-granule release in cocaine users.

1994 • 100 citations

Pulmonary histopathology in cocaine abusers

1994 • 90 citations

Cocaine-associated Chest Pain: One-year Follow-up

1995 • 89 citations

Association between life-threatening cocaine toxicity and plasma cholinesterase activity

1992 • 84 citations

Cocaine-associated asthma

1990 • 78 citations

Increased Lung Permeability following Long-term Use of Free-base Cocaine (Crack)

1991 • 68 citations

Pulmonary Complications Associated With Illicit Drug Use

1995 • 50 citations

Decreased plasma cholinesterase activity enhances cocaine toxicity in mice.

1992 • 45 citations

Cholinergic modulation of the coronary vasoconstriction induced by cocaine in conscious dogs.

1993 • 42 citations

Sympathetic nervous system mediated cardiovascular effects of cocaine are primarily due to a peripheral site of action of the drug

1995 • 41 citations

Increased Prevalence of Aortic Fatty Streaks in Cholesterol-Fed Rabbits Administered Intravenous Cocaine: The Role of Vascular Endothelium*¹

1993 • 39 citations

Crack abuse and asthma: a fatal combination.

1990 • 34 citations

Cocaine: an independent risk factor for aortic sudanophilia. A preliminary report

1992 • 34 citations

Cocaine-Induced Myocardial Ultrastructural Alterations and Cardiac Output Responses in Rats

1993 • 32 citations

Left ventricular function immediately after intravenous cocaine: A quantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic study

1993 • 31 citations

Causes of differential cardiovascular sensitivity to cocaine. II: Sympathetic, metabolic and cardiac effects.

1994 • 25 citations

Pulmonary effects of the cocaine pyrolysis product, methylecgonidine, in guinea pigs

1994 • 22 citations

Cocaine-induced microvascular spasm in Yucatan miniature swine. In vivo and in vitro evidence of spasm.

1994 • 21 citations

Cocaine and the porcine coronary microcirculation: Effects of chronic cocaine exposure and hypercholesterolemia

1995 • 16 citations

Cholinergic stimulation modulates negative inotropic effect of cocaine on ferret ventricular myocardium

1996 • 15 citations

Role of the Sympathoadrenal Axis in the Cardiovascular Response to Cocaine in Conscious Unrestrained Rats

1995 • 13 citations