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ArticleCureus2024

New-Onset Wrist Drop After a Night of Drinking: A Case Report.

Moronkeji Fagbemi, Narges Joshaghani

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Moronkeji FagbemiInternal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, BronxCare Health System, New York, USA.
Narges JoshaghaniAddiction Psychiatry, BronxCare Health System, New York, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This case report highlights the clinical approach to evaluating a patient with substance use disorder presenting with a sudden onset of peripheral neuropathy in the left hand. Our patient had significant cardiovascular risk factors, which further broadened the differential diagnosis beyond common causes of mononeuropathy. The use of detailed and appropriate clinical history, physical examination, and careful selection of relevant laboratory and radiological tests was instrumental in ruling out multiple medical differential diagnoses, including common mononeuropathies and life-threatening ones, such as cerebrovascular accidents, which facilitated the involvement of necessary consults while also treating both the presenting medical complication and underlying severe alcohol use disorder with additional efforts at relapse prevention.

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alcohol use disordercompressive radial mononeuropathynaltrexonesaturday night palsywrist drop

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PMID38800346
PMCPMC11127611

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