Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage

Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male...

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Main Authors:	Yaman, Hüseyin, Aydın, Yusuf, Yılmaz, Süleyman, Önder, Elif, Güçlüm, Ender, Öztürk, Özcan
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Language:	English
Published:	Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2011
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173709/

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spelling	pubmed-31737092011-09-23 Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage Yaman, Hüseyin Aydın, Yusuf Yılmaz, Süleyman Önder, Elif Güçlüm, Ender Öztürk, Özcan Case Report Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male who took heroin several times nasally presented with massive nasal bleeding. A blood transfusion and an operation to halt nasal bleeding were required. The patient did not experience a bleeding attack 2 months following cessation of nasal heroin use. Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2011-09 2011-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3173709/ /pubmed/21949584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3342/ceo.2011.4.3.159 Text en Copyright © 2011 by Korean Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Yaman, Hüseyin Aydın, Yusuf Yılmaz, Süleyman Önder, Elif Güçlüm, Ender Öztürk, Özcan
spellingShingle	Yaman, Hüseyin Aydın, Yusuf Yılmaz, Süleyman Önder, Elif Güçlüm, Ender Öztürk, Özcan Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
author_facet	Yaman, Hüseyin Aydın, Yusuf Yılmaz, Süleyman Önder, Elif Güçlüm, Ender Öztürk, Özcan
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title	Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
title_short	Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
title_full	Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
title_fullStr	Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
title_full_unstemmed	Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage
title_sort	recurrent and massive life threatening epistaxis due to nasal heroin usage
description	Epistaxis, active bleeding from the nose, is a common ear nose and throat emergency, and can be severe or even fatal. We report a severe life threatening recurrent massive nasal bleeding caused by intranasal heroin use that has not hitherto been reported in the English literature. A 24-year-old male who took heroin several times nasally presented with massive nasal bleeding. A blood transfusion and an operation to halt nasal bleeding were required. The patient did not experience a bleeding attack 2 months following cessation of nasal heroin use.
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Recurrent and Massive Life Threatening Epistaxis due to Nasal Heroin Usage

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