Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity

Psychosis with phenytoin use has earlier been reported only in the context of Vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency. We report a rare case of phenytoin toxicity manifesting as psychosis in the absence of Vitamin deficiency. The importance of recognition of psychosis as a harbinger of phenytoin toxici...

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Autores principales: Borasi, Manish, Verma, R. Pravin, Gupta, Sumit Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862279
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.172272
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description Psychosis with phenytoin use has earlier been reported only in the context of Vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency. We report a rare case of phenytoin toxicity manifesting as psychosis in the absence of Vitamin deficiency. The importance of recognition of psychosis as a harbinger of phenytoin toxicity and implications for management are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-47211662016-02-09 Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity Borasi, Manish Verma, R. Pravin Gupta, Sumit Kumar Toxicol Int Case Report Psychosis with phenytoin use has earlier been reported only in the context of Vitamin B12 or folic acid deficiency. We report a rare case of phenytoin toxicity manifesting as psychosis in the absence of Vitamin deficiency. The importance of recognition of psychosis as a harbinger of phenytoin toxicity and implications for management are discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4721166/ /pubmed/26862279 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6580.172272 Text en Copyright: © Toxicology International 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 ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title_full Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title_fullStr Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title_full_unstemmed Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title_short Psychosis as Harbinger of Phenytoin Toxicity
title_sort psychosis as harbinger of phenytoin toxicity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721166/
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