Glue sniffing and heroin abuse.

Glue sniffing and cerebral infarction.

A 12 year old boy who was a habitual glue sniffer developed a dense hemiparesis in association with an episode of glue sniffing. Occlusion of the right middle cerebral artery was found. It is postulated that the stroke was precipitated by an episode of vascular spasm.

Physical and Psychologic Factors in Glue Sniffing.

Toxic polyneuropathy due to glue sniffing.

Four cases of toxic polyneuropathy due to glue-sniffing were reported. Neurological examination revealed motor predominant mixed type polyneuropathy. The cause of polyneuropathies in these cases was considered to be due to the inhalation of the vaporized elements of the adhesive agent, which contain mainly n-hexane and toluene. N-hexane is considered to be chiefly responsible for the polyneurop...

Transverse myelitis and heroin abuse: a case report

  Abstract   The usage of heroin is associated with a variety of neurologic disorders, including   acute transverse myelitis. In this study we present a 19 year old man who was suffered   from insufflated heroin after several months of abstinence, and admitted to hospital   emergency department, unconscious. He responded to fluid therapy and Naloxone,   but could not move his legs on examinatio...

Polyradiculoneuropathy associated with heroin abuse.

Neurological complications of heroin addiction have occurred only sporadically in the United Kingdom. We report the case of a young female patient who developed an acute polyradiculoneuropathy when she recommended intravenous heroin after four years abstinence. Another possible aetiological factor was a preceding flu-like illness but, after full investigations, we concluded that heroin abuse wa...