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Brachial and lumbar plexitis as a reaction to heroin
E Stamboulis1, A Psimaras, S Malliara-Loulakaki
1Department of Neurology, Medical School, University of Athens, Aeginition Hospital, Greece.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
A case is described of a young man who presented with acute pulmonary edema and flaccid paralysis of the right upper and lower extremity, following his first injection of heroin and was found in a comatose state. Needle electromyographic findings were compatible with a severe lesion of the right brachial plexus and a moderate lesion of the right lumbar plexus. An allergic or a hypersensitivity reaction might have been the possible cause.