Acute Psychosis Following 1,1-Difluoroethane Inhalation

Inhalants are often abused due to their ability to acutely induce feelings of euphoria. Difluoroethane is a toxic lipophilic hydrocarbon that crosses the blood-brain barrier and inhibits the central nervous system. Studies have shown the cardiac, renal, and respiratory effects it has when abused; ho...

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Autores principales: Novotny, Clara B, Irvin, Sarah, Espiridion, Eduardo D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31695984
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5565
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description Inhalants are often abused due to their ability to acutely induce feelings of euphoria. Difluoroethane is a toxic lipophilic hydrocarbon that crosses the blood-brain barrier and inhibits the central nervous system. Studies have shown the cardiac, renal, and respiratory effects it has when abused; however, our literature review yielded no previous report of acute psychosis after difluoroethane inhalation. In order to prevent poor outcomes by missed diagnosis, we present a case of difluoroethane-induced acute psychosis. 
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spelling pubmed-68206892019-11-06 Acute Psychosis Following 1,1-Difluoroethane Inhalation Novotny, Clara B Irvin, Sarah Espiridion, Eduardo D Cureus Psychiatry Inhalants are often abused due to their ability to acutely induce feelings of euphoria. Difluoroethane is a toxic lipophilic hydrocarbon that crosses the blood-brain barrier and inhibits the central nervous system. Studies have shown the cardiac, renal, and respiratory effects it has when abused; however, our literature review yielded no previous report of acute psychosis after difluoroethane inhalation. In order to prevent poor outcomes by missed diagnosis, we present a case of difluoroethane-induced acute psychosis.  Cureus 2019-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6820689/ /pubmed/31695984 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5565 Text en Copyright © 2019, Novotny 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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Acute Psychosis Following 1,1-Difluoroethane Inhalation
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title_short Acute Psychosis Following 1,1-Difluoroethane Inhalation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820689/
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