These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Tetraplegia and acute respiratory insufficiency from an ischemic cervical medulla lesion after cocaine use. A clinical case].
    Author: Laurenzi L, Natoli S, Calamaro A, Rispoli GC, Arcuri E.
    Journal: Minerva Anestesiol; 1995 Sep; 61(9):387-91. PubMed ID: 8919835.
    Abstract:
    The article deals with a case report on tetraplegia and acute respiratory failure following ischemic damage of the spinal medulla in the cervical tract due to cocaine assumption. The ischemic damaged produced by cocaine usually injure the great vessels of the cranial base. The case report is particular because of the area and the seize of the injured vessel. Finally, the most important hypotheses about the pathogenesis in the ischemic cerebrovascular cocaine-induced damages are debated.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]