A Case for Advancing Pediatric Addiction Medicine: Methamphetamine-associated Congestive Heart Failure in a 27 year old patient

Introduction Heart failure has been estimated to affect roughly 5.7 million within the United States and 26 million worldwide (1). Though there are myriad causes of this condition, methamphetamine-associated heart failure (MethHF) is showing an increase in prevalence (2). MethHF has more recently been demonstrated to appear in relatively younger patients when compared to non-methamphetamine associated heart failure (non-MethHF) patients, with the median age of 49.7 for the former …