Drug-induced confusional states: The usual suspects?

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 436-438

  Hufschmidt, A ^a   Shabarin, V ^a   Zimmer, T ^b  

^a Abt Neurologie   (Germany)

^b St Elisabeth Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delirium; Diuretics; Dopamine; Dopamine agonists

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CALCIUM; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITOXIN; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GYRASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; OPIATE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PIRACETAM; SERTRALINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUTE CONFUSION; ADULT; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIPARKINSON AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; CONFUSION; DEMENTIA; DIURETICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 72849137291     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2009.01174.x     Document Type: Note

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