Plexopathy in a heroin addict

الملخص EN

Muscle and peripheral nerve disorders are important complications in intravenous heroin abusers.

Rhabdomyolysis and acute lumbosacral plexopathy are important in the differential diagnosis of patients develop¬ing muscle weakness in an intensive care unit after intra¬venous overdoses of heroin.

A 25-year-old man developed rhabdomyolysis with neuromuscular involvement, and con¬sistent clinical and electrodiagnostic features of lumbar plexus neuropathy after an intravenous injection of heroin.

The improvement occured slowly, over months, in spite of intensive physiotherapy.