Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication
Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug with multiple mechanisms of action, which condition the presence of a characteristic clinical picture after the overingestion of the drug. We expose a case report about a patient who, in the context of an attempted suicide, presented acute intoxication by benz...
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| author | María Dolores Calabria Gallego Mónica Alañá García |
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| description | Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug with multiple mechanisms of action, which condition the presence of a characteristic clinical picture after the overingestion of the drug. We expose a case report about a patient who, in the context of an attempted suicide, presented acute intoxication by benzodiazepines and carbamazepine, presenting the characteristic clinical picture of fluctuations in the level of consciousness, even presenting gaze deconjugation, almost unreactive coma and generalized hypotonia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f0cd1f905e64fce951b76a57b2b11b92023-11-23T18:08:28ZengMDPI AGNeurology International2035-83772022-07-0114361461810.3390/neurolint14030049Acute Carbamazepine IntoxicationMaría Dolores Calabria Gallego0Mónica Alañá García1IBSAL, Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, SpainNeurology Department, Universitary Hospital of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, SpainCarbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug with multiple mechanisms of action, which condition the presence of a characteristic clinical picture after the overingestion of the drug. We expose a case report about a patient who, in the context of an attempted suicide, presented acute intoxication by benzodiazepines and carbamazepine, presenting the characteristic clinical picture of fluctuations in the level of consciousness, even presenting gaze deconjugation, almost unreactive coma and generalized hypotonia.https://www.mdpi.com/2035-8377/14/3/49carbamazepineacute intoxicationneurological side effects |
| spellingShingle | María Dolores Calabria Gallego Mónica Alañá García Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication Neurology International carbamazepine acute intoxication neurological side effects |
| title | Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication |
| title_full | Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication |
| title_fullStr | Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication |
| title_short | Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication |
| title_sort | acute carbamazepine intoxication |
| topic | carbamazepine acute intoxication neurological side effects |
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