Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis

Most cases of antituberculous agent–associated psychoses were caused by isoniazid (INH), with ethambutol (EMB)-induced psychosis being rare. The concomitant occurrence of INH- and EMB- induced psychosis and in a single individual is extremely uncommon. We report a case of 28-year-old male who develo...

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Autores principales: R., Prasad, Garg, Rajiv, Verma, Sanjay Kumar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561898
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.43083
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description Most cases of antituberculous agent–associated psychoses were caused by isoniazid (INH), with ethambutol (EMB)-induced psychosis being rare. The concomitant occurrence of INH- and EMB- induced psychosis and in a single individual is extremely uncommon. We report a case of 28-year-old male who developed psychotic symptoms on start of EMB initially and later on INH also. He was prescribed rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ofloxacin and had no further psychotic symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-27004502009-06-25 Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis R., Prasad Garg, Rajiv Verma, Sanjay Kumar Ann Thorac Med Case Report Most cases of antituberculous agent–associated psychoses were caused by isoniazid (INH), with ethambutol (EMB)-induced psychosis being rare. The concomitant occurrence of INH- and EMB- induced psychosis and in a single individual is extremely uncommon. We report a case of 28-year-old male who developed psychotic symptoms on start of EMB initially and later on INH also. He was prescribed rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ofloxacin and had no further psychotic symptoms. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2700450/ /pubmed/19561898 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.43083 Text en © Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title_full Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title_fullStr Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title_full_unstemmed Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title_short Isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
title_sort isoniazid- and ethambutol-induced psychosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561898
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.43083
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