Can "steroid switching" improve steroid-induced musical hallucinations in a patient with terminal cancer?

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1495-1498

  Kanemura, Seitetsu ^a   Tanimukai, Hitoshi ^b,c   Tsuneto, Satoru ^c  

^a Gratia Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BROMAZEPAM; CARBOCISTEINE; DICLOFENAC; DIPROPHYLLINE; FAMOTIDINE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; PREDNISOLONE; TEPRENONE; TRAZODONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HAND PARESTHESIA; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD CHANGE; MORTALITY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSICAL STRESS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURODESIS; PRECORDIAL PAIN; RELAPSE; REVIEW; TERMINAL DISEASE; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY; WHEEZING;

BETAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MESOTHELIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PREDNISOLONE; PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED; STEROIDS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 78650343118     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.9751     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. Ross DD, Alexander CS: Management of common symptoms in terminally ill patients: Part 1. Fatigue, anorexia, cachexia, nausea and vomiting. Am Fam Physician 2001;64: 807-814.
2. Watanabe S, Bruera E: Corticosteroids as adjuvant analgesics. J Pain Symptom Manage 1994;9:442-445.
3. Lewis DA, Smith RE: Steroid-induced psychiatric syndromes: A report of 14 cases and a review of the literature. J Affect Disord 1983;5:319-332.
4. Patten SB, Neutel CI: Corticosteroid-induced adverse psychiatric effects: incidence, diagnosis and management. Drug Saf 2000;22:111-122.
5. Berrios GE: Musical hallucinations. A historical and clinical study. Br J Psychiatry 1990;156:188-194.
6. Pasquini F, Cole MG: Idiopathic musical hallucinations in the elderly. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 1997;10:11-14.
7. Lishman WA: Epilepsy. In: Lishman WA (ed): Organic Psychiatry, 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1999, pp. 237-314.
8. Fukunishi I, Horikawa N, Onai H: Prevalence rate of musical hallucinations in a general hospital setting. Psychosomat 1998;39:175.
9. Cole MG, Dowson L, Dendukuri N, Belzile E: The prevalence and phenomenology of auditory hallucinations among elderly subjects attending an audiology clinic. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002;17:444-452.
10. Erkwoh R, Ebel H, Kachel F, Reiche W, Ringelstein EB, Büll U, Sass H: 18FDG-PET and electroencephalographic findings in a patient suffering from musical hallucinations. Nuklearmedizin 1993;32:159-163.
11. Kasai K, Asada T, Yumoto M, Takeya J, Matsuda H: Evidence for functional abnormality in the right auditory cortex during musical hallucinations. Lancet 1999;354:1703-1704.
12. Griffiths TD: Musical hallucinosis in acquired deafness. Phenomenology and brain substrate. Brain 2000;123:2065-2076.
13. Mori T, Ikeda M, Fukuhara R, Sugawara Y, Nakata S, Matsumoto N, Nestor PJ, Tanabe H: Regional cerebral blood flow change in a case of Alzheimer's disease with musical hallucinations. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2006; 256:236-239.
14. Fernandez A, Crowther TR, Vieweg W: Musical hallucinations induced by propranolol. J Nerv Ment Dis 1998;186: 192-194.
15. Gordon AG: Drug-induced musical hallucinations. J Nerv Ment Dis 1998;186:652-653.
16. Evers S, Ellger T: The clinical spectrum of musical hallucination. J Neurol Sci 2004;227:55-65.
17. Gordon AG: Musical hallucinations. Neurology 1994;44: 986-987.
18. Wolf ME, Keener S, Mathis P, Mosnaim AD: Phenylethylamine- like properties of baclofen. Neurosychobiology 1983;9: 219-222.
19. Kannan TR, Saxena A, Bhatnagar S, Barry A: Oral ketamine as an adjuvant to oral morphine for neuropathic pain in cancer patients. J Pain Symptom Manage 2002;23:60-65.
20. Keeley PW, Foster G, Whitelaw L: Hear my song: Auditory hallucinations with tramadol hydrochloride. BMJ 2000;321: 1608.
21. Moore TA: Musical hallucinations induced by oxycodone. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003;11:470.
22. Okishiro N, Tanimukai H, Tsuneto S, Ito N: Can "steroid switching" improve steroid-induced psychosis in a patient with advanced cancer? J Palliat Med 2009;12:487-490.
23. Warren JD, Schott GD: Musical hallucinations in a musician. J Neurol 2006;253:1097-1099.
24. Hermesh H, Konas S, Shiloh R, Dar R, Marom S, Weizman A, Gross-Isseroff R: Musical hallucinations: Prevalence in psychotic and nonpsychotic outpatients. J Clin Psychiatry 2004;65:191-197.