Neurologic complications of cocaine abuse
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (8) , 1189
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.8.1189
Abstract
Over a 24-month period we evaluated 14 patients with neurologic disease associated with cocaine abuse. Five patients developed previously unreported complications: anterior spinal artery syndrome, lateral medullary syndrome, transient ischemic attacks in the middle cerebral artery and vertebrobasilar artery territories, and partial motor seizures. The recent availability of crack has led to a great increase in neurologic problems associated with the use of this drug.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- “Crack” cocaine‐associated strokeNeurology, 1987
- Cerebral vasculitis associated with cocaine abuseJAMA, 1987
- Acute Cardiac Events Temporally Related to Cocaine AbuseNew England Journal of Medicine, 1986