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Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia

A rare case of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia, a 35-year-old man with clinical and sonographic features of left epididymitis. However, Ultrasound incidentally showed a lack of vascularity of the right testicle despite being asymptomatic on the right hemi-scrotum. He was a known intraven...

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Autores principales: Al-Zubaidi, Mohammed, Stuart, Andrew, Jayaratne, Thilina, Marsdin, Emma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32420042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101238
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Stuart, Andrew
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description A rare case of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia, a 35-year-old man with clinical and sonographic features of left epididymitis. However, Ultrasound incidentally showed a lack of vascularity of the right testicle despite being asymptomatic on the right hemi-scrotum. He was a known intravenous methamphetamine user, admitting his last injection was 4 h prior to his presentation. The left epididymitis was treated with antibiotics, analgesia and scrotal support, while right testicle was treated conservatively with serial ultrasounds. Repeat ultrasound in 20 h confirmed the return of normal vascularity of the right testicle confirming methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia, no surgical intervention needed.
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spelling pubmed-72179952020-05-15 Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia Al-Zubaidi, Mohammed Stuart, Andrew Jayaratne, Thilina Marsdin, Emma Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection A rare case of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia, a 35-year-old man with clinical and sonographic features of left epididymitis. However, Ultrasound incidentally showed a lack of vascularity of the right testicle despite being asymptomatic on the right hemi-scrotum. He was a known intravenous methamphetamine user, admitting his last injection was 4 h prior to his presentation. The left epididymitis was treated with antibiotics, analgesia and scrotal support, while right testicle was treated conservatively with serial ultrasounds. Repeat ultrasound in 20 h confirmed the return of normal vascularity of the right testicle confirming methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia, no surgical intervention needed. Elsevier 2020-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7217995/ /pubmed/32420042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101238 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
title_full Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
title_fullStr Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
title_full_unstemmed Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
title_short Non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
title_sort non-surgical management of methamphetamine induced testicular ischemia
topic Inflammation and Infection
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32420042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101238
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