Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients

Wound botulism is a potentially lethal condition that can cause paralysis. Its association with black tar heroin is a well‐established fact. It is essential to alert clinicians in recognizing the patients with history of injection drug abuse presenting with clinical features of botulism early on adm...

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Autores principales: Qureshi, Ihtesham A., Qureshi, Mohtashim A., Vellipuram, Anantha‐Ramana, Kassar, Darine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6028420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29988706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1622
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description Wound botulism is a potentially lethal condition that can cause paralysis. Its association with black tar heroin is a well‐established fact. It is essential to alert clinicians in recognizing the patients with history of injection drug abuse presenting with clinical features of botulism early on admission for prompt diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-60284202018-07-09 Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients Qureshi, Ihtesham A. Qureshi, Mohtashim A. Vellipuram, Anantha‐Ramana Kassar, Darine Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Wound botulism is a potentially lethal condition that can cause paralysis. Its association with black tar heroin is a well‐established fact. It is essential to alert clinicians in recognizing the patients with history of injection drug abuse presenting with clinical features of botulism early on admission for prompt diagnosis and treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6028420/ /pubmed/29988706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1622 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title_full Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title_fullStr Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title_full_unstemmed Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title_short Is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? A report of two Hispanic patients
title_sort is black tar heroin use associated with wound botulism? a report of two hispanic patients
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6028420/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1622
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