Acute on Chronic Theophylline Toxicity in an Elderly Patient

Theophylline toxicity has become rare in the 21st century, as the drug has fallen out of favor due to serious life-threatening adverse events, narrow therapeutic window and readily available therapeutic alternatives. The wide array of clinical symptoms related to theophylline toxicity makes this dia...

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Autores principales: Kong, Alexander, Ghosh, Somshukla, Guan, Chelsea, Fries, Brittany L, Burke, Floyd W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777571
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13484
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author Kong, Alexander
Ghosh, Somshukla
Guan, Chelsea
Fries, Brittany L
Burke, Floyd W
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description Theophylline toxicity has become rare in the 21st century, as the drug has fallen out of favor due to serious life-threatening adverse events, narrow therapeutic window and readily available therapeutic alternatives. The wide array of clinical symptoms related to theophylline toxicity makes this diagnosis challenging for the treating physician. We report a case of an elderly gentleman who presented with respiratory failure and seizures due to severe theophylline toxicity.
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spelling pubmed-79900222021-03-26 Acute on Chronic Theophylline Toxicity in an Elderly Patient Kong, Alexander Ghosh, Somshukla Guan, Chelsea Fries, Brittany L Burke, Floyd W Cureus Cardiology Theophylline toxicity has become rare in the 21st century, as the drug has fallen out of favor due to serious life-threatening adverse events, narrow therapeutic window and readily available therapeutic alternatives. The wide array of clinical symptoms related to theophylline toxicity makes this diagnosis challenging for the treating physician. We report a case of an elderly gentleman who presented with respiratory failure and seizures due to severe theophylline toxicity. Cureus 2021-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7990022/ /pubmed/33777571 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13484 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kong 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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Acute on Chronic Theophylline Toxicity in an Elderly Patient
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title_short Acute on Chronic Theophylline Toxicity in an Elderly Patient
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topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7990022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33777571
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13484
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