Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations

Cocaine is used to produce a euphoric effect by abusers, who may be unaware of the devastating systemic and ocular side effects of this drug. We describe the first known case of cilioretinal artery occlusion after intranasal cocaine abuse.

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Autores principales: Kannan, Balaji, Balaji, Vijayalakshmi, Kummararaj, Sherin, Govindarajan, Kummararaj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836348
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.83619
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author Kannan, Balaji
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spelling pubmed-31593242011-09-07 Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations Kannan, Balaji Balaji, Vijayalakshmi Kummararaj, Sherin Govindarajan, Kummararaj Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Cocaine is used to produce a euphoric effect by abusers, who may be unaware of the devastating systemic and ocular side effects of this drug. We describe the first known case of cilioretinal artery occlusion after intranasal cocaine abuse. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3159324/ /pubmed/21836348 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.83619 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kannan, Balaji
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Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title_full Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title_fullStr Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title_full_unstemmed Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title_short Cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
title_sort cilioretinal artery occlusion following intranasal cocaine insufflations
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836348
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.83619
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