Acute Demyelination in a Person with Amphetamine Abuse

We report the case of a 31-year-old woman, admitted to the hospital for chest pain, dying a few days later from septic multiorgan failure, and showing at autopsy foci of acute demyelination in the occipital lobe. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis revealed the presence of amphetamine in t...

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Autores principales: Weis, Serge, Sachs, Hans, Büttner, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22937385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/514613
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description We report the case of a 31-year-old woman, admitted to the hospital for chest pain, dying a few days later from septic multiorgan failure, and showing at autopsy foci of acute demyelination in the occipital lobe. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis revealed the presence of amphetamine in the demyelinated area, which might be considered as the pathogenic agent, since other causes for demyelination could be excluded. This case represents the first report showing a demyelinating process due to a street drug.
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spelling pubmed-34204462012-08-30 Acute Demyelination in a Person with Amphetamine Abuse Weis, Serge Sachs, Hans Büttner, Andreas Case Rep Pathol Case Report We report the case of a 31-year-old woman, admitted to the hospital for chest pain, dying a few days later from septic multiorgan failure, and showing at autopsy foci of acute demyelination in the occipital lobe. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis revealed the presence of amphetamine in the demyelinated area, which might be considered as the pathogenic agent, since other causes for demyelination could be excluded. This case represents the first report showing a demyelinating process due to a street drug. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3420446/ /pubmed/22937385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/514613 Text en Copyright © 2011 Serge Weis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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