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Ventricular fibrillation due to overdose of loperamide, the “poor man’s methadone”

Amr SalamaDepartment of Medicine, Unity Hospital, Rochester, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]

Yana LevinDepartment of Medicine, Unity Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA

Pramod JhaDepartment of Medicine, Unity Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA

Richard AlweisDepartment of Medicine, Unity Hospital, Rochester, NY, USA;Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA;School of Health Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

Pages 222-226 | Received 03 Apr 2017, Accepted 27 Jun 2017, Published online: 19 Sep 2017

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