Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare monophasic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder characterized by multifocal demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system. Clinically, it is distinguished by a variety of acute neurological deficits, including varying degrees of mental sta...

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Autores principales: Akcan, Tugce, Gajera, Milan, Najjar Mojarrab, Javad, Medani, Abuzaid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22551
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author Akcan, Tugce
Gajera, Milan
Najjar Mojarrab, Javad
Medani, Abuzaid
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description Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare monophasic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder characterized by multifocal demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system. Clinically, it is distinguished by a variety of acute neurological deficits, including varying degrees of mental state changes and white matter abnormalities detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We present a challenging case of a young woman who developed ADEM as a result of chronic cannabis abuse. This, to the best of our knowledge, is the second case report of ADEM linked to cannabis abuse.
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spelling pubmed-89569302022-03-27 Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse Akcan, Tugce Gajera, Milan Najjar Mojarrab, Javad Medani, Abuzaid Cureus Internal Medicine Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare monophasic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder characterized by multifocal demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system. Clinically, it is distinguished by a variety of acute neurological deficits, including varying degrees of mental state changes and white matter abnormalities detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We present a challenging case of a young woman who developed ADEM as a result of chronic cannabis abuse. This, to the best of our knowledge, is the second case report of ADEM linked to cannabis abuse. Cureus 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8956930/ /pubmed/35345729 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22551 Text en Copyright © 2022, Akcan et al. https://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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Akcan, Tugce
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Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title_full Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title_fullStr Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title_full_unstemmed Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title_short Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Associated With Chronic Cannabis Abuse
title_sort acute disseminated encephalomyelitis associated with chronic cannabis abuse
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8956930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345729
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22551
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