TOPIRAMATE INDUCED PRURITUS IN A PATIENT WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Topiramate is an antiepileptic medication frequently used for the management of alcohol dependence and in other psychiatric disorders. Though cutaneous side effects are known to occur with it, isolated pure pruritus is rarely reported with topiramate in the literature. We wish to report a case of pr...

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Autores principales: Aggarwal, Ashish, Kumar, Ramesh, Sharma, Ravi C, Sharma, Dinesh Dutt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965853
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.84746
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author Aggarwal, Ashish
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description Topiramate is an antiepileptic medication frequently used for the management of alcohol dependence and in other psychiatric disorders. Though cutaneous side effects are known to occur with it, isolated pure pruritus is rarely reported with topiramate in the literature. We wish to report a case of pruritus associated with topiramate use in a male with alcohol dependence syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-31790082011-10-02 TOPIRAMATE INDUCED PRURITUS IN A PATIENT WITH ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE Aggarwal, Ashish Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Ravi C Sharma, Dinesh Dutt Indian J Dermatol Case Report Topiramate is an antiepileptic medication frequently used for the management of alcohol dependence and in other psychiatric disorders. Though cutaneous side effects are known to occur with it, isolated pure pruritus is rarely reported with topiramate in the literature. We wish to report a case of pruritus associated with topiramate use in a male with alcohol dependence syndrome. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3179008/ /pubmed/21965853 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.84746 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology 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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