Acute Psychosis After Treatment of Epididymitis with Ciprofloxacin

Ciprofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is generally well-tolerated and widely used in clinical practice to treat various forms of infection. There have been several case reports detailing the development of psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms secondary to use of this antibiotic....

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Autores principales: Rossi, Garrett, Mazoki, Kristen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30013869
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2605
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description Ciprofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is generally well-tolerated and widely used in clinical practice to treat various forms of infection. There have been several case reports detailing the development of psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms secondary to use of this antibiotic. This case report details the history of an acute paranoid psychosis that developed in a patient treated with ciprofloxacin for epididymitis.
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spelling pubmed-60392132018-07-16 Acute Psychosis After Treatment of Epididymitis with Ciprofloxacin Rossi, Garrett Mazoki, Kristen Cureus Family/General Practice Ciprofloxacin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is generally well-tolerated and widely used in clinical practice to treat various forms of infection. There have been several case reports detailing the development of psychosis and other neuropsychiatric symptoms secondary to use of this antibiotic. This case report details the history of an acute paranoid psychosis that developed in a patient treated with ciprofloxacin for epididymitis. Cureus 2018-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6039213/ /pubmed/30013869 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2605 Text en Copyright © 2018, Rossi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039213/
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