Use of the street drug Ecstasy is thought to be linked to a potentially fatal rupture of the spinal cord artery, the doctors warn. Posterior spinal artery aneurysms - a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, caused by a weakening and distension of the vessel wall - are rare, with only 12 cases reported to date. But all of them caused spinal bleeding which affected the function of the spinal cord. Doctors discovered one of these aneurysms in ...Saturday 5 July 2014
Ecstasy Use Linked to Brain Spinal Artery Aneurysm
Use of the street drug Ecstasy is thought to be linked to a potentially fatal rupture of the spinal cord artery, the doctors warn. Posterior spinal artery aneurysms - a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, caused by a weakening and distension of the vessel wall - are rare, with only 12 cases reported to date. But all of them caused spinal bleeding which affected the function of the spinal cord. Doctors discovered one of these aneurysms in ...
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