Leukoencephalopathy and raised brain lactate from heroin vapor inhalation

Neurology. 2000 May 23;54(10):2027-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.54.10.2027-b.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Inhalation
  • Brain / drug effects*
  • Brain / metabolism
  • Demyelinating Diseases / chemically induced*
  • Demyelinating Diseases / diagnosis
  • Demyelinating Diseases / metabolism
  • Heroin / adverse effects*
  • Heroin Dependence / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia, Brain / chemically induced
  • Hypoxia, Brain / diagnosis
  • Hypoxia, Brain / metabolism
  • Lactic Acid / metabolism*

Substances

  • Lactic Acid
  • Heroin