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Lead brachial neuropathy in heroin addiction. A case report
G Antonini1, G Palmieri, L G Spagnoli
1Department of Neuroscience - University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The possible toxical effect of heavy metals in the pathogenesis of brachial and lumbar plexopathies during heroin addiction has been previously hypothesized by some authors, but never detected. A 24-year-old man, addicted to heroin showed the clinical picture of a symmetrical brachial neuropathy, without other neurological involvement. Lead poisoning was detected in this patient and the chelating therapy induced a marked improvement of the clinical symptoms.