Acute psychotic symptoms following a single dose of levofloxacin

The objective of our case report was to raise awareness of the neurotoxic potential of levofloxacin in naïve patients. In patients with severe infections and comorbidities, it would be difficult to discriminate the neurotoxic effects of levofloxacin from those of the medical condition itself. Thus,...

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Autores principales: Takser, Larissa, Grad, Roland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5715417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29225872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1240
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spelling pubmed-57154172017-12-08 Acute psychotic symptoms following a single dose of levofloxacin Takser, Larissa Grad, Roland Clin Case Rep Case Reports The objective of our case report was to raise awareness of the neurotoxic potential of levofloxacin in naïve patients. In patients with severe infections and comorbidities, it would be difficult to discriminate the neurotoxic effects of levofloxacin from those of the medical condition itself. Thus, health professionals should be aware of the early onset CNS effects of levofloxacin in naïve patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5715417/ /pubmed/29225872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1240 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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