Cannabis-associated angiopathy: an uncommon cause of crescendo transient ischemic attacks
| Autor: | Matilda Papathanasiou, Stefanos Lachanis, Maria Chondrogianni, Konstantinos Voumvourakis, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Elias Brountzos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Marijuana Abuse Intracranial stenosis Magnetic resonance angiography Angiopathy Physiology (medical) Internal medicine Crescendo Transient Ischemic Attacks medicine Humans Arteritis Myocardial infarction Cannabis biology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Cannabis use medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Ischemic Attack Transient Anesthesia Acute Disease Cardiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Magnetic Resonance Angiography |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 130(23) |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 |
| Popis: | Multifocal angiopathy associated with cannabis consumption is an uncommon cause of ischemic stroke in young individuals.1–3 The main radiological characteristics include the presence of multifocal intracranial stenosis and the reversibility of vasoconstriction after cannabis withdrawal.1–3 Cannabis use has been linked recently to other arterial complications, including myocardial infarction (strong temporal link between the occurrence of myocardial infarction and cannabis consumption) and lower limb arteritis with distal arterial occlusions.4 We describe the neuroimaging findings of a 42-year-old man with a >20-year history of daily cannabis consumption … |
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