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

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.05.023
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).

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