Nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and massive pulmonary embolism in COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: A patient presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and lower extremity weakness in the setting of nitrous oxide inhalant abuse and Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection. He subsequently developed hypotension and severe hypoxia, found to have a saddle pulmonary embolus (PE) with right heart strain requiring alteplase (tPA).

SUBMITTER: Molina MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229475 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature