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Embolic Stroke After Smoking"Crack"Cocaine
Stroke 21:1632-1635, Petty,G.W.,et al, 1990
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Article Abstract
A 39-year-old woman had an embolic upper division middle cerebral artery branch occlusion 3 hours after smoking the free base of cocaine("crack"). Radionuclide ventriculography demonstrated cardiomyopathy,and echocardiography documented a left atrial thrombus.This case demonstrates that embolism is one mechanism of ischemic stroke after cocaine use,and that cardiomyopathy,possibly cocaine induced,may be the source of embolus. A cardiac source of embolus should be sought in patients with cocaine- associated cerebral infarction.
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