Nitrous Oxide-Induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency Resulting in Myelopathy

Nitrous oxide, primarily used in the medical field and in the food industry, can cause symptoms of euphoria and analgesia. Recreational use of nitrous oxide is rising, as are reports of its adverse effects, including neurologic complaints secondary to an evoked vitamin B12 deficiency. We outline a c...

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Autores principales: Campdesuner, Victoria, Teklie, Yeshanew, Alkayali, Talal, Pierce, Derek, George, Justin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685323
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9088
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author Campdesuner, Victoria
Teklie, Yeshanew
Alkayali, Talal
Pierce, Derek
George, Justin
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description Nitrous oxide, primarily used in the medical field and in the food industry, can cause symptoms of euphoria and analgesia. Recreational use of nitrous oxide is rising, as are reports of its adverse effects, including neurologic complaints secondary to an evoked vitamin B12 deficiency. We outline a case of a patient presenting with several neurologic symptoms and found to have myelopathy secondary to vitamin B12 deficiency in the presence of prolonged recreational nitrous oxide use. 
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spelling pubmed-73660392020-07-17 Nitrous Oxide-Induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency Resulting in Myelopathy Campdesuner, Victoria Teklie, Yeshanew Alkayali, Talal Pierce, Derek George, Justin Cureus Internal Medicine Nitrous oxide, primarily used in the medical field and in the food industry, can cause symptoms of euphoria and analgesia. Recreational use of nitrous oxide is rising, as are reports of its adverse effects, including neurologic complaints secondary to an evoked vitamin B12 deficiency. We outline a case of a patient presenting with several neurologic symptoms and found to have myelopathy secondary to vitamin B12 deficiency in the presence of prolonged recreational nitrous oxide use.  Cureus 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7366039/ /pubmed/32685323 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9088 Text en Copyright © 2020, Campdesuner 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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Pierce, Derek
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Nitrous Oxide-Induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency Resulting in Myelopathy
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title_fullStr Nitrous Oxide-Induced Vitamin B12 Deficiency Resulting in Myelopathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366039/
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