C Lefkidis

Death of a HIV-infected Homosexual from Nitrite Inhalants (Poppers)

Issue:

Vol 59, issue 4 (2010)

Pages:

450–2

Synopsis:

This is a case report of a homosexual man, with HIV infection, who had used poppers and had a myocardial infarction. Clinicians and the gay press should discourage the use of poppers.

INTRODUCTION

Drugs such as nitrites, methamphetamine, phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitors, ketamine, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and others have long been used as precursors to sex or during sex by some individuals. Nitrites in the form of amyl nitrite have also a long history of use in the treatment of angina pectoris and as antidotes in cyanide poisoning (1, 2).

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