Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?

We present a case of imaging proven cerebral vasospasm causing ischemic stroke in a young patient chronically on buprenorphine-naloxone for heroin remission who started smoking cannabis on a daily basis. With cannabis legalization spreading across the states in the USA, it is important for physician...

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Autores principales: Jamil, Marium, Zafar, Atif, Adeel Faizi, Syed, Zawar, Ifrah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5313795
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author Jamil, Marium
Zafar, Atif
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description We present a case of imaging proven cerebral vasospasm causing ischemic stroke in a young patient chronically on buprenorphine-naloxone for heroin remission who started smoking cannabis on a daily basis. With cannabis legalization spreading across the states in the USA, it is important for physicians not only to be aware of cannabis reported association with cerebral vasospasm in some patients but also to be on the lookout for possible interacting medications that can synergistically affect cerebral vessels causing debilitating strokes.
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spelling pubmed-50900672016-11-10 Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm? Jamil, Marium Zafar, Atif Adeel Faizi, Syed Zawar, Ifrah Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report We present a case of imaging proven cerebral vasospasm causing ischemic stroke in a young patient chronically on buprenorphine-naloxone for heroin remission who started smoking cannabis on a daily basis. With cannabis legalization spreading across the states in the USA, it is important for physicians not only to be aware of cannabis reported association with cerebral vasospasm in some patients but also to be on the lookout for possible interacting medications that can synergistically affect cerebral vessels causing debilitating strokes. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5090067/ /pubmed/27833768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5313795 Text en Copyright © 2016 Marium Jamil et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title_full Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title_fullStr Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title_full_unstemmed Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title_short Stroke from Vasospasm due to Marijuana Use: Can Cannabis Synergistically with Other Medications Trigger Cerebral Vasospasm?
title_sort stroke from vasospasm due to marijuana use: can cannabis synergistically with other medications trigger cerebral vasospasm?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5313795
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