PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE

Sixty patients with chloroquine induced psychiatric complications are reported in the present series. Psychosis was the most common complication followed by anxiety state and seizures. The maximum number of patients were between the ages of 6 and 10 years and females (70.0%) outnumbered the males (3...

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Autores principales: Bhatia, M.S., Malik, S.C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1994
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743675
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description Sixty patients with chloroquine induced psychiatric complications are reported in the present series. Psychosis was the most common complication followed by anxiety state and seizures. The maximum number of patients were between the ages of 6 and 10 years and females (70.0%) outnumbered the males (30.0%). Headache and sleeplessness were found to be more common amongpatients developing psychiatric complications of chloroquine. The symptoms disappeared within 2 to 21 days after the discontinuation of chloroquine.
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spelling pubmed-29724652011-07-08 PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE Bhatia, M.S. Malik, S.C. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Sixty patients with chloroquine induced psychiatric complications are reported in the present series. Psychosis was the most common complication followed by anxiety state and seizures. The maximum number of patients were between the ages of 6 and 10 years and females (70.0%) outnumbered the males (30.0%). Headache and sleeplessness were found to be more common amongpatients developing psychiatric complications of chloroquine. The symptoms disappeared within 2 to 21 days after the discontinuation of chloroquine. Medknow Publications 1994 /pmc/articles/PMC2972465/ /pubmed/21743675 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE
title PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE
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title_fullStr PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE
title_short PSYCHIATRIC COMPLICATIONS OF CHLOROQUINE
title_sort psychiatric complications of chloroquine
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