Levofloxacin-induced acute psychosis

A wide range of drugs can cause mental status changes. Fluoroquinolones are one among them and are underrecognised.The CNS side effects of levofloxacin like headache, dizziness, restlessness, tremor, insomnia, hallucinations, convulsions, anxiety and depression are well documented. We report a rare...

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Autores principales: Moorthy, Nagaraja, Raghavendra, N., Venkatarathnamma, P. N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19771310
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.39762
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author Moorthy, Nagaraja
Raghavendra, N.
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Raghavendra, N.
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description A wide range of drugs can cause mental status changes. Fluoroquinolones are one among them and are underrecognised.The CNS side effects of levofloxacin like headache, dizziness, restlessness, tremor, insomnia, hallucinations, convulsions, anxiety and depression are well documented. We report a rare case of middle aged diabetic male admitted to hospital with multiple infections who developed acute psychosis following levofloxacin administration.
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spelling pubmed-27458712009-09-21 Levofloxacin-induced acute psychosis Moorthy, Nagaraja Raghavendra, N. Venkatarathnamma, P. N. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report A wide range of drugs can cause mental status changes. Fluoroquinolones are one among them and are underrecognised.The CNS side effects of levofloxacin like headache, dizziness, restlessness, tremor, insomnia, hallucinations, convulsions, anxiety and depression are well documented. We report a rare case of middle aged diabetic male admitted to hospital with multiple infections who developed acute psychosis following levofloxacin administration. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2745871/ /pubmed/19771310 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.39762 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry 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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