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Editor, Senior Moderator
Am J Emerg Med
. 2020 May 16.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023. Online ahead of print.
Nitrous Oxide Inhalant Abuse and Massive Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19
Melanie F Molina[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahad A Al Saud[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abdullah A Al Mulhim[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Andrew S Liteplo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hamid Shokoohi[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE) with right heart strain requiring alteplase (tPA).
. 2020 May 16.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023. Online ahead of print.
Nitrous Oxide Inhalant Abuse and Massive Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19
Melanie F Molina[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahad A Al Saud[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abdullah A Al Mulhim[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Andrew S Liteplo[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hamid Shokoohi[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32425320
- PMCID: PMC7229475
- DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023
Abstract
A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE) with right heart strain requiring alteplase (tPA).