A chronic marijuana user died after a severe multi-day bout of vomiting and abdominal pain caused a fatal heart rhythm disorder that led to brain death.
The 22-year-old woman treated in Canada began using weed at 14 and had been suffering from multiple bouts of severe cannabis hyperemesis syndrome – a condition marked by violent, painful, repeated episodes of severe vomiting – for more than three years.
When she was admitted to the hospital with vomiting and abdominal pain, she developed a specific life-threatening irregular heartbeat called torsades de pointes, which caused her heart to stop.
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