Central Nervous System Vasculitis Due to Substance Abuse
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1Department of Neurology, Division of Neuro-Epidemiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; School of Public Health, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Illicit drug abuse is a common differential diagnosis of acquired central nervous system vasculitis even though there are only a handful of histopathologically confirmed patients in the literature from among the many potential classes of abused drugs traditionally implicated in this disease. This article considers the major classes of illicit drugs in those with and without human immunodeficiency virus type-1 infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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