Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug

Antiepileptic drug-induced psychotic disorder represents an iatrogenic, adverse drug reaction. Phenytoin has rarely been shown to be a causative agent of acute psychosis in patients. We present such a rare case of short term use of phenytoin causing toxicity manifesting as acute psychosis and comple...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Mohit, Borkar, Sachin Anil, Kale, Shashank Sharad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143275
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_86_18
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description Antiepileptic drug-induced psychotic disorder represents an iatrogenic, adverse drug reaction. Phenytoin has rarely been shown to be a causative agent of acute psychosis in patients. We present such a rare case of short term use of phenytoin causing toxicity manifesting as acute psychosis and complete recovery following phenytoin withdrawal.
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spelling pubmed-65160052019-05-29 Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug Agrawal, Mohit Borkar, Sachin Anil Kale, Shashank Sharad Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Antiepileptic drug-induced psychotic disorder represents an iatrogenic, adverse drug reaction. Phenytoin has rarely been shown to be a causative agent of acute psychosis in patients. We present such a rare case of short term use of phenytoin causing toxicity manifesting as acute psychosis and complete recovery following phenytoin withdrawal. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6516005/ /pubmed/31143275 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_86_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title_full Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title_fullStr Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title_full_unstemmed Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title_short Phenytoin Toxicity Manifesting as Acute Psychosis: An Uncommon Side Effect of a Common Drug
title_sort phenytoin toxicity manifesting as acute psychosis: an uncommon side effect of a common drug
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6516005/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143275
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_86_18
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