Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens

Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite adding midazolam drip as well as phenobarbitone to...

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Autores principales: Kafle, Paritosh, Mandal, Amrendra Kumar, Shrestha, Binav, Bhattrai, Bikash, Bhandari, Manjul, Bhagat, Shambhu, Shankar Kar, Bijoy, Sharma, Dikshya, Gayam, Vijay
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31053040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619847228
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author Kafle, Paritosh
Mandal, Amrendra Kumar
Shrestha, Binav
Bhattrai, Bikash
Bhandari, Manjul
Bhagat, Shambhu
Shankar Kar, Bijoy
Sharma, Dikshya
Gayam, Vijay
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description Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite adding midazolam drip as well as phenobarbitone to the management regimen and excluding other possible diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-65052292019-05-17 Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens Kafle, Paritosh Mandal, Amrendra Kumar Shrestha, Binav Bhattrai, Bikash Bhandari, Manjul Bhagat, Shambhu Shankar Kar, Bijoy Sharma, Dikshya Gayam, Vijay J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite adding midazolam drip as well as phenobarbitone to the management regimen and excluding other possible diagnoses. SAGE Publications 2019-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6505229/ /pubmed/31053040 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619847228 Text en © 2019 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Sharma, Dikshya
Gayam, Vijay
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