Adolescent ischemic stroke associated with anabolic steroid and cannabis abuse.

Tarik El Scheich, Artur-Aron Weber, Dirk Klee, Daniel Schweiger, Ertan Mayatepek, Michael Karenfort

University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany. Tarik.elscheich@med.uni-dusseldorf.de

Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM 2013

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We report on a 16-year-old body builder who suffered from an acute ischemic stroke. In the urine, cannabis metabolites as well as metabolites of the oral androgenic-anabolic steroid methandrostenolone were detected, both known to be associated with stroke events. This report highlights the role of cannabis and steroid abuse that induce strokes in the absence of arteriopathy, cardioembolism or thrombophilia. Owing to new upcoming socio-behavioral aspects of late childhood and early adolescent life, this formally rare abuse of cannabis and/or anabolic steroids as well as their associations with strokes becomes more current than ever.

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Tarik El Scheich, Artur-Aron Weber, Dirk Klee, Daniel Schweiger, Ertan Mayatepek, Michael Karenfort. Adolescent ischemic stroke associated with anabolic steroid and cannabis abuse. Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM. 2013;26(1-2):161-5