American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 1986-Sep
Fatal malignant hyperthermia associated with recreational cocaine and ethanol abuse.
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Abstract
Malignant hyperthermia is an often lethal hypermetabolic crisis state precipitated by a variety of pharmacological and environmental triggers in genetically susceptible persons. The present report documents, by medical history and necropsy, a fatal malignant hyperthermic crisis in a 20-year-old man after an evening of recreational cocaine and ethanol abuse.
