Heales Simon, Crawley Francesca, Rudge Peter
Neurometabolic Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Mov Disord. 2004 Oct;19(10):1248-51. doi: 10.1002/mds.20158.
A patient who inhaled heroin vapour (chasing the dragon), resulting in temporary parkinsonism, is described. A reversible deficiency of tetrahydrobiopterin, causing altered dopamine metabolism, is demonstrated as the metabolic basis of this aspect of the encephalopathy.
描述了一名吸入海洛因蒸汽(追龙)导致暂时性帕金森症的患者。四氢生物蝶呤的可逆性缺乏导致多巴胺代谢改变,被证明是该脑病这一方面的代谢基础。