Audio-Visual Hallucinations in a Patient Poststem Cell Transplant

Tramadol is the most common weak opioid used today. It has unique pharmacology and is notorious for numerous side effects as well as drug interactions. Patients undergoing stem cell transplant are susceptible to polypharmacy as a result of the generous use of antibiotics and symptom management drugs...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Astha Koolwal, Naresh, G, Sharma, Atul, Bhatnagar, Sushma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6812421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31673218
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_43_19
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author Kapoor, Astha Koolwal
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description Tramadol is the most common weak opioid used today. It has unique pharmacology and is notorious for numerous side effects as well as drug interactions. Patients undergoing stem cell transplant are susceptible to polypharmacy as a result of the generous use of antibiotics and symptom management drugs. Here, we describe a case where concurrent use of tramadol and fluconazole can cause hallucinations as a result of drug interaction.
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spelling pubmed-68124212019-10-31 Audio-Visual Hallucinations in a Patient Poststem Cell Transplant Kapoor, Astha Koolwal Naresh, G Sharma, Atul Bhatnagar, Sushma Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Tramadol is the most common weak opioid used today. It has unique pharmacology and is notorious for numerous side effects as well as drug interactions. Patients undergoing stem cell transplant are susceptible to polypharmacy as a result of the generous use of antibiotics and symptom management drugs. Here, we describe a case where concurrent use of tramadol and fluconazole can cause hallucinations as a result of drug interaction. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6812421/ /pubmed/31673218 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_43_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Palliative Care 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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