Ornidazole-induced ataxia in an Indian woman: A case report

The nitroimidazole group of antibiotics like metronidazole have been reported to cause cerebellar ataxia as a rare side effect. Ornidazole, the newest derivative of this class, has a long half life and is very rarely known to cause cerebellar ataxia. Here, we report a 61-year-old patient who develop...

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Autores principales: Gopinath, Kango Gopal, Wilson, Benny Paul, Viggeswarpu, Surekha, Mathews, Prasad K, Mani, Sunithi
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X15621857
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description The nitroimidazole group of antibiotics like metronidazole have been reported to cause cerebellar ataxia as a rare side effect. Ornidazole, the newest derivative of this class, has a long half life and is very rarely known to cause cerebellar ataxia. Here, we report a 61-year-old patient who developed ataxia due to ornidazole to highlight an unusual adverse event that improved rapidly after discontinuation of the offending drug.
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spelling pubmed-48573032016-08-03 Ornidazole-induced ataxia in an Indian woman: A case report Gopinath, Kango Gopal Wilson, Benny Paul Viggeswarpu, Surekha Mathews, Prasad K Mani, Sunithi SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report The nitroimidazole group of antibiotics like metronidazole have been reported to cause cerebellar ataxia as a rare side effect. Ornidazole, the newest derivative of this class, has a long half life and is very rarely known to cause cerebellar ataxia. Here, we report a 61-year-old patient who developed ataxia due to ornidazole to highlight an unusual adverse event that improved rapidly after discontinuation of the offending drug. SAGE Publications 2015-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4857303/ /pubmed/27489705 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X15621857 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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