Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy

Nitrous oxide abuse is an uncommon cause of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord. This is a case of a 27-year-old female exotic dancer who presented with clinical and laboratory manifestations of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord secondary to nitrous oxide-induced B12 de...

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Autores principales: Edigin, Ehizogie, Ajiboye, Oyintayo, Nathani, Avantika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6777927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31598438
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5331
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author Edigin, Ehizogie
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description Nitrous oxide abuse is an uncommon cause of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord. This is a case of a 27-year-old female exotic dancer who presented with clinical and laboratory manifestations of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord secondary to nitrous oxide-induced B12 deficiency from chronic whippets consumption.
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spelling pubmed-67779272019-10-09 Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy Edigin, Ehizogie Ajiboye, Oyintayo Nathani, Avantika Cureus Internal Medicine Nitrous oxide abuse is an uncommon cause of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord. This is a case of a 27-year-old female exotic dancer who presented with clinical and laboratory manifestations of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord secondary to nitrous oxide-induced B12 deficiency from chronic whippets consumption. Cureus 2019-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6777927/ /pubmed/31598438 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5331 Text en Copyright © 2019, Edigin 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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Edigin, Ehizogie
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Nathani, Avantika
Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title_full Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title_fullStr Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title_full_unstemmed Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title_short Nitrous Oxide-induced B12 Deficiency Presenting With Myeloneuropathy
title_sort nitrous oxide-induced b12 deficiency presenting with myeloneuropathy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6777927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31598438
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5331
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