Clinical, neuroimaging and pathological features of 5-nitroimidazole- induced encephalo-neuropathy in two patients: Insights into possible pathogenesis

Neurology India

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 743-747

  Chacko, J ^a   Pramod, K ^a   Sinha, S ^a   Saini, J ^a   Mahadevan, A ^a   Bharath, R D ^a   Bindu, P S ^a   Yasha, T C ^a   Taly, A B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; magnetic resonance imaging; metronidazole; neuropathy; nitroimidazole; tinidazole

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MULTIVITAMIN; ORNIDAZOLE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STEROID; TINIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIARRHEA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABLE COLON; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTOXICITY; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARESTHESIA; PLASMA CELL; PUTAMEN; REMISSION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WEAKNESS; WHITE MATTER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NITROIMIDAZOLES; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERIPHERAL NERVES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81155135247     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.86552     Document Type: Article

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