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Volume 345:700-701 August 30, 2001 Number 9
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Severe Coagulopathy as a Consequence of Smoking Crack Cocaine Laced with Rodenticide

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To the Editor: We wish to report the development of a severe coagulopathy in a patient who smoked "crack" cocaine mixed with brodifacoum, a rodenticide. The patient, a 37-year-old man, presented to an emergency room with epistaxis of several hours' duration. He had elevated prothrombin and activated partial-thromboplastin times and a normal platelet count. After nasal packing, he was transferred to our facility, and the following laboratory values were obtained: a prothrombin time of 65.8 seconds (normal range, 9.7 to 12.5), an international normalized ratio of 5.8, an activated partial-thromboplastin time of 46.4 seconds (normal range, 21.0 to 30.6), a . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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