Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage

Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male...

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Autores principales: Yaman, Hüseyin, Aydın, Yusuf, Yılmaz, Süleyman, Önder, Elif, Güçlüm, Ender, Öztürk, Özcan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21949584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3342/ceo.2011.4.3.159
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Aydın, Yusuf
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description Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male who took heroin several times nasally presented with massive nasal bleeding. A blood transfusion and an operation to halt nasal bleeding were required. The patient did not experience a bleeding attack 2 months following cessation of nasal heroin use.
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spelling pubmed-31737092011-09-23 Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage Yaman, Hüseyin Aydın, Yusuf Yılmaz, Süleyman Önder, Elif Güçlüm, Ender Öztürk, Özcan Clin Exp Otorhinolaryngol Case Report Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male who took heroin several times nasally presented with massive nasal bleeding. A blood transfusion and an operation to halt nasal bleeding were required. The patient did not experience a bleeding attack 2 months following cessation of nasal heroin use. Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2011-09 2011-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3173709/ /pubmed/21949584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3342/ceo.2011.4.3.159 Text en Copyright © 2011 by Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 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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