Heroin abuse may be associated with cerebral arteritis and subsequent cerebral infarction.
Supports possible heroin-cerebral arteritis link; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A twenty-year-old man suffered a left homonymous hemianopia after self-administration of heroin. Investigations revealed right occipital infarction with angiographic changes of arteritis in the posterior cerebral arteries.
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