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Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use
The cerebrovascular effects of marijuana use are not well described. With increasing legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use in North America, identification of potential risks of the drug is necessary. We present the case of a 31-year-old man who had two ischemic infarctions in di...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758993/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565637 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5239 |
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author | Viswanathan, Vyas Yu, Crystal Sambursky, Jacob A Kaur, Supreet Simpkins, Alexis N |
author_facet | Viswanathan, Vyas Yu, Crystal Sambursky, Jacob A Kaur, Supreet Simpkins, Alexis N |
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description | The cerebrovascular effects of marijuana use are not well described. With increasing legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use in North America, identification of potential risks of the drug is necessary. We present the case of a 31-year-old man who had two ischemic infarctions in different vascular distributions, without other identifiable etiology, which were temporally associated with marijuana use. We additionally identified the level of metabolites in his system and discussed the need for a systematic description of these cases to determine whether a dose-dependent effect exists. |
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spelling | pubmed-67589932019-09-28 Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use Viswanathan, Vyas Yu, Crystal Sambursky, Jacob A Kaur, Supreet Simpkins, Alexis N Cureus Neurology The cerebrovascular effects of marijuana use are not well described. With increasing legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational use in North America, identification of potential risks of the drug is necessary. We present the case of a 31-year-old man who had two ischemic infarctions in different vascular distributions, without other identifiable etiology, which were temporally associated with marijuana use. We additionally identified the level of metabolites in his system and discussed the need for a systematic description of these cases to determine whether a dose-dependent effect exists. Cureus 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6758993/ /pubmed/31565637 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5239 Text en Copyright © 2019, Viswanathan 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. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Viswanathan, Vyas Yu, Crystal Sambursky, Jacob A Kaur, Supreet Simpkins, Alexis N Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title | Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title_full | Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title_fullStr | Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title_short | Acute Cerebral Ischemia Temporally Associated with Marijuana Use |
title_sort | acute cerebral ischemia temporally associated with marijuana use |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758993/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565637 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5239 |
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