A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report

A patient with a history of treated pain with intravenous drugs comes at high risk for drug abuse. Administration of intravenous pentazocine continuously for a long time in the same location affected the skin tissue. Pentazocine misuse is frequent among patients with chronic disease conditions and t...

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Autores principales: Yelne, Seema, Wanjari, Mayur B, Munjewar, Pratiksha K, Malu, Krutika, Umate, Roshan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36000113
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27046
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author Yelne, Seema
Wanjari, Mayur B
Munjewar, Pratiksha K
Malu, Krutika
Umate, Roshan
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description A patient with a history of treated pain with intravenous drugs comes at high risk for drug abuse. Administration of intravenous pentazocine continuously for a long time in the same location affected the skin tissue. Pentazocine misuse is frequent among patients with chronic disease conditions and the easy availability of pentazocine injection can easily lead to significant consequences. We present a unique case of pentazocine misuse resulting in significant skin necrosis. We present a case of a 48-year-old male with a complaint of pain and wound with lesions over the arm due to the regular self-administered pentazocine in the same location. The therapeutic intervention given in this case is an opiate agonist to control the dependence on pentazocine.
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spelling pubmed-93892602022-08-22 A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report Yelne, Seema Wanjari, Mayur B Munjewar, Pratiksha K Malu, Krutika Umate, Roshan Cureus Emergency Medicine A patient with a history of treated pain with intravenous drugs comes at high risk for drug abuse. Administration of intravenous pentazocine continuously for a long time in the same location affected the skin tissue. Pentazocine misuse is frequent among patients with chronic disease conditions and the easy availability of pentazocine injection can easily lead to significant consequences. We present a unique case of pentazocine misuse resulting in significant skin necrosis. We present a case of a 48-year-old male with a complaint of pain and wound with lesions over the arm due to the regular self-administered pentazocine in the same location. The therapeutic intervention given in this case is an opiate agonist to control the dependence on pentazocine. Cureus 2022-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9389260/ /pubmed/36000113 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27046 Text en Copyright © 2022, Yelne 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.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Yelne, Seema
Wanjari, Mayur B
Munjewar, Pratiksha K
Malu, Krutika
Umate, Roshan
A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title_full A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title_fullStr A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title_short A Rare Incidence of Necrotizing Lesion of the Upper Arm Due to Pentazocine Injection Abuse: A Case Report
title_sort rare incidence of necrotizing lesion of the upper arm due to pentazocine injection abuse: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36000113
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27046
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