Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report

We present a case of a young man who developed bilateral basal ganglia infarct after intranasal use of cocaine. Cerebral ischemic infarcts are a known complication of cocaine use. This complication is rare and has been reported in the past with cocaine and concomitant use of other drugs such as hero...

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Autores principales: Cisneros, Oscar, Garcia de de Jesus, Katherine, Then, Eric O, Rehmani, Razia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245195
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4405
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description We present a case of a young man who developed bilateral basal ganglia infarct after intranasal use of cocaine. Cerebral ischemic infarcts are a known complication of cocaine use. This complication is rare and has been reported in the past with cocaine and concomitant use of other drugs such as heroin and amphetamines.
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spelling pubmed-65596842019-06-26 Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report Cisneros, Oscar Garcia de de Jesus, Katherine Then, Eric O Rehmani, Razia Cureus Internal Medicine We present a case of a young man who developed bilateral basal ganglia infarct after intranasal use of cocaine. Cerebral ischemic infarcts are a known complication of cocaine use. This complication is rare and has been reported in the past with cocaine and concomitant use of other drugs such as heroin and amphetamines. Cureus 2019-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6559684/ /pubmed/31245195 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4405 Text en Copyright © 2019, Cisneros et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Cisneros, Oscar
Garcia de de Jesus, Katherine
Then, Eric O
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Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title_full Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title_fullStr Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title_short Bilateral Basal Ganglia Infarction After Intranasal Use of Cocaine: A Case Report
title_sort bilateral basal ganglia infarction after intranasal use of cocaine: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245195
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4405
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