Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report

Ergotamine-induced limb ischemia is an extremely rare case. We present a case of a 64-year-old man, who developed ischemia on the right upper extremity due to long-term use of Ergot for migraine headache. Angiography revealed diffused, smooth, and tapered narrowing of the brachial artery. The patien...

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Autores principales: Kim, Man Deuk, Lee, Gun, Shin, Sung Wook
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15968153
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2005.6.2.130
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description Ergotamine-induced limb ischemia is an extremely rare case. We present a case of a 64-year-old man, who developed ischemia on the right upper extremity due to long-term use of Ergot for migraine headache. Angiography revealed diffused, smooth, and tapered narrowing of the brachial artery. The patient was successfully treated with intravenous nitroprusside.
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spelling pubmed-26864212009-05-29 Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report Kim, Man Deuk Lee, Gun Shin, Sung Wook Korean J Radiol Case Report Ergotamine-induced limb ischemia is an extremely rare case. We present a case of a 64-year-old man, who developed ischemia on the right upper extremity due to long-term use of Ergot for migraine headache. Angiography revealed diffused, smooth, and tapered narrowing of the brachial artery. The patient was successfully treated with intravenous nitroprusside. The Korean Radiological Society 2005 2005-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2686421/ /pubmed/15968153 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2005.6.2.130 Text en Copyright © 2005 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Man Deuk
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Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title_full Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title_short Ergotamine-Induced Upper Extremity Ischemia: A Case Report
title_sort ergotamine-induced upper extremity ischemia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15968153
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2005.6.2.130
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