Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity

Metronidazole is a commonly used antimicrobial drug. When used excessively, it can cause encephalopathy. We report the MRI findings in one such case. A 43-year-old male patient was treated with metronidazole for 2 months, for an amebic liver abscess and presented with neurological signs and symptoms...

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Autores principales: Kalia, Vishal, Vibhuti, Saggar, Kavita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Neuroradiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042443
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.69355
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description Metronidazole is a commonly used antimicrobial drug. When used excessively, it can cause encephalopathy. We report the MRI findings in one such case. A 43-year-old male patient was treated with metronidazole for 2 months, for an amebic liver abscess and presented with neurological signs and symptoms. MRI of the brain showed findings consistent with metronidazole toxicity.
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spelling pubmed-29637442010-11-01 Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity Kalia, Vishal Vibhuti, Saggar, Kavita Indian J Radiol Imaging Neuroradiology Metronidazole is a commonly used antimicrobial drug. When used excessively, it can cause encephalopathy. We report the MRI findings in one such case. A 43-year-old male patient was treated with metronidazole for 2 months, for an amebic liver abscess and presented with neurological signs and symptoms. MRI of the brain showed findings consistent with metronidazole toxicity. Medknow Publications 2010-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2963744/ /pubmed/21042443 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.69355 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging 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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Kalia, Vishal
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Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title_full Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title_fullStr Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title_full_unstemmed Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title_short Case report: MRI of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
title_sort case report: mri of the brain in metronidazole toxicity
topic Neuroradiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042443
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.69355
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