Metronidazole induced cerebellar ataxia

Metronidazole is a widely used antimicrobial usually prescribed by many specialist doctors for a short duration of 10-15 days. Prolonged use of metronidazole is rare. The present case is of a patient who used the drug for 4 months and developed peripheral neuropathy, convulsions, and cerebellar atax...

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Autores principales: Hari, Aditya, Srikanth, B. Akshaya, Lakshmi, G. Sriranga
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3696306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23833378
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.111903
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author Hari, Aditya
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description Metronidazole is a widely used antimicrobial usually prescribed by many specialist doctors for a short duration of 10-15 days. Prolonged use of metronidazole is rare. The present case is of a patient who used the drug for 4 months and developed peripheral neuropathy, convulsions, and cerebellar ataxia. He was treated with diazepam and levetiracetam. The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of metronidazole.
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spelling pubmed-36963062013-07-05 Metronidazole induced cerebellar ataxia Hari, Aditya Srikanth, B. Akshaya Lakshmi, G. Sriranga Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Metronidazole is a widely used antimicrobial usually prescribed by many specialist doctors for a short duration of 10-15 days. Prolonged use of metronidazole is rare. The present case is of a patient who used the drug for 4 months and developed peripheral neuropathy, convulsions, and cerebellar ataxia. He was treated with diazepam and levetiracetam. The patient recovered completely following discontinuation of metronidazole. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3696306/ /pubmed/23833378 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.111903 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology 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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