Cefepime neurotoxicity can mimic postanoxic coma with myoclonic status epilepticus

Neurology: Clinical Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-74

  Hocker, Sara ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMA; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSTONIA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; KIDNEY PERFUSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER PERFUSION; MENTAL HEALTH; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROTOXICITY; OROFACIAL DYSKINESIA; POSTANOXIC COMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SEDATION; SHOCK; TRACHEOSTOMY; TUBE REMOVAL;

EID: 84876510924     PISSN: 21630402     EISSN: 21630933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/CPJ.0b013e31823b4e5d     Document Type: Article

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