Nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and massive pulmonary embolism in COVID-19

A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus...

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Autores principales: Molina, Melanie F., Al Saud, Ahad A., Al Mulhim, Abdullah A., Liteplo, Andrew S., Shokoohi, Hamid
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Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7229475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32425320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023
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author Molina, Melanie F.
Al Saud, Ahad A.
Al Mulhim, Abdullah A.
Liteplo, Andrew S.
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description A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE) with right heart strain requiring alteplase (tPA).
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spelling pubmed-72294752020-05-18 Nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and massive pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 Molina, Melanie F. Al Saud, Ahad A. Al Mulhim, Abdullah A. Liteplo, Andrew S. Shokoohi, Hamid Am J Emerg Med Article A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE) with right heart strain requiring alteplase (tPA). Elsevier Inc. 2020-07 2020-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7229475/ /pubmed/32425320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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