A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection

Metronidazole may rarely cause encephalopathy and neuropathy. In this study, we report a 30‐year‐old post‐partum, ex‐addicted female with leukoencephalopathy due to metronidazole.

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Autores principales: Faraji Dana, Hoorvash, Shojaei Arani, Lida, Faraji, Ali, Bahmani, Kiumars
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4635
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author Faraji Dana, Hoorvash
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spelling pubmed-83650042021-08-23 A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection Faraji Dana, Hoorvash Shojaei Arani, Lida Faraji, Ali Bahmani, Kiumars Clin Case Rep Case Report Metronidazole may rarely cause encephalopathy and neuropathy. In this study, we report a 30‐year‐old post‐partum, ex‐addicted female with leukoencephalopathy due to metronidazole. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8365004/ /pubmed/34430007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4635 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Faraji Dana, Hoorvash
Shojaei Arani, Lida
Faraji, Ali
Bahmani, Kiumars
A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title_full A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title_fullStr A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title_full_unstemmed A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title_short A case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
title_sort case report of toxic leukoencephalopathy induced by metronidazole in a woman with surgical site infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8365004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4635
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