Isoniazid overdose: A case series, literature review and survey of antidote availability

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 479-485

  Maw, Graeme ^a   Aitken, Peter ^a  

^a TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDOTE; BENZODIAZEPINE; ISONIAZID; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEURITIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TOXIC HEPATITIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0042671424     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00044011-200323070-00007     Document Type: Article

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