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Ischemic Stroke Following an Intramuscular Injection of Diclofenac

Case Report

Ran Kornowski

From the Department of Medicine "T," Ichilov Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Amos Pines

From the Department of Medicine "T," Ichilov Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yoram Levo

From the Department of Medicine "T," Ichilov Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have arterial vasospastic properties. The authors report a stroke that occurred within minutes following an intramuscular injection of diclofenac. A sixty-one-year-old man, a heavy smoker, was admitted for an acute onset of mild hemiparesis thirty minutes after a single intramuscular injection of diclofenac. The neurologic deficit was resolved at one month of follow-up. The authors suggest a temporal causal relationship between the cerebrovascular event and the injection of diclofenac. The mechanism of stroke might be related to a synergistic vasospastic property shared by the use of an NSAID and heavy smoking.

Angiology, Vol. 46, No. 12, 1145-1147 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979504601211
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