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Gabapentin induces edema, hyperesthesia and scaling in a depressed patient; a diagnostic challenge

Gabapentin is a common drug used as analgesic and anticonvulsant and also is prescribed for insomnia, depression, obsessive – compulsive disorder and panic attack. We report a case of a 48-year-old man who is prescribed gabapentin because of insomnia, headache, and depressed mood. In the first perio...

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Autores principales: Bidaki, Reza, Sadeghi, Zahra, Shafizadegan, Safiye, Sadeghi, Ali, Khalili, Behrang, Haghshenas, Alireza, Mirhosseini, Seyyed Mohammad Mahdy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955622
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.174955
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Sumario:Gabapentin is a common drug used as analgesic and anticonvulsant and also is prescribed for insomnia, depression, obsessive – compulsive disorder and panic attack. We report a case of a 48-year-old man who is prescribed gabapentin because of insomnia, headache, and depressed mood. In the first period of using the drug no complication has been seen. However in the next period, side-effects such as hyperesthesia, scaling and severe localized edema has been observed. After several laboratory tests and imaging, no reason was found for his edema. And after discontinuing gabapentin the pain and edema was quite relieved. We found out the brand of the drug has been switched in the second stage. The point which makes our study special is the incidence of side-effects such as severe edema, scaling and hyperesthesia for the first time because of using gabapentin and changing the drug combination.