Linezolid inducing complex partial status epilepticus in a patient with epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 378-379

  Shneker, Bassel F ^a   Baylin, Peggy D ^b   Nakhla, Michael E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; ETIRACETAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LINEZOLID; LORAZEPAM; PROPOFOL; VANCOMYCIN; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; WOUND INFECTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; WOUND HEALING;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXAZOLIDINONES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 60549111403     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000341309.88093.3c     Document Type: Article

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