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Cycloserine induced psychosis with hepatic dysfunction

With the increase in the cases of multidrug resistance tuberculosis, second line anti-tubercular drugs like the cycloserine are being prescribed frequently. Isoniazid and ethambutol are reported to cause psychosis like state; however, few reports of cycloserine induced psychosis are available. To th...

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Autores principales: Tandon, Vishal R., Rani, Neelam, Roshi, Gupta, Rahul, Arora, Manu, Khajuria, Vijay, Mahajan, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878391
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.153439
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Sumario:With the increase in the cases of multidrug resistance tuberculosis, second line anti-tubercular drugs like the cycloserine are being prescribed frequently. Isoniazid and ethambutol are reported to cause psychosis like state; however, few reports of cycloserine induced psychosis are available. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of cycloserine induced psychosis with hepatic dysfunction.