Foot drop with a popliteal artery aneurysm due to heroin use : A case report

Drug addiction has become an important problem worldwide, and the number of heroin users has been rapidly increasing. There are serious complications related to intravenous drug use. Sharing injectors and using them multiple times cause septic and infective complications. Another important aspect of intravenous drug use is that it potentiates vascular damage. Contaminated injectors may induce pseudoaneurysms when applied directly into the vessel, endothelium, or surrounding tissues. Infected pseudoaneurysms may provoke necrosis, rupture, bleeding, and some dramatic results such as loss of extremity or death. Herein, we report a female case who had a history of long-term substance abuse in whom foot drop developed with a popliteal artery aneurysm.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:64

Enthalten in:

Turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation - 64(2018), 3 vom: 13. Sept., Seite 284-287

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bardak, Ayşe Nur [VerfasserIn]
Öneş, Kadriye [VerfasserIn]
Ateş Yalçın, Merve [VerfasserIn]
Sekizkardeş, Merve [VerfasserIn]
Öneş, Halil Nadir [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Heroin
Intravenous drug
Popliteal artery
Pseudoaneurysm

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 29.09.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.5606/tftrd.2018.2124

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300631294