1. Severe bilateral cerebellar edema from ingestion of ketamine: case report
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Thomas Gianaris, Natalie Hauser, Blake A. Froberg, Nicolas W. Villelli, and Daniel H. Fulkerson
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Context (language use) ,Brain Edema ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030202 anesthesiology ,Edema ,Intervention (counseling) ,Cerebellum ,Cerebellar edema ,medicine ,Ingestion ,Humans ,Ketamine ,Analgesics ,business.industry ,Clinical course ,Infant ,General Medicine ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Anesthesia ,Accidental ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,medicine.drug - Abstract
The use of ketamine as a drug of abuse has increased and so too has the risk of accidental overdose. Here, the authors report the case of a 10-month-old infant who inadvertently ingested ketamine. The child demonstrated severe cerebellar swelling that required emergency surgical intervention. The authors describe the clinical course of this child and present the radiographic characteristics of the brain. The imaging characteristics were not consistent with purely anoxic injury, thus suggesting a specific effect of this drug. To the authors’ knowledge, similar imaging characteristics in this context have not been described.
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- 2017