[Cannabis and tobacco: cofactors favoring juvenile obliterative arteriopathy]

J Mal Vasc. 2000 Dec;25(5):388-389.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The causal effect of cannabis, associated or not with smoking, in juvenile thromboangiitis disorders such as Leo Buerger disease, has been suggested. We describe here a case of a 30-year-old woman who smoked cannabis and developed intermittent claudication of the lower limbs. Female sex and proximal localization of the lesions (external iliac artery) are not usually described in "cannabis arteritis". Cannabis would be involved not only in the pathogenesis of juvenile obstructive arteriopathy, but also in the development of atheromatous lesions in the young subject.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Drug Synergism
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Iliac Artery / pathology*
  • Intermittent Claudication / etiology
  • Marijuana Smoking / adverse effects*
  • Smoking / adverse effects*
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / etiology*
  • Thromboangiitis Obliterans / pathology