Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-related hallucinations

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 230.e7-230.e8

  Stuhec, Matej ^a  

^a Psychiatric Hospital Ormoz   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cooperation between clinical pharmacsit and psychiatrist; Geriatric case report; Psychiatric adverse effect; Safety of trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole; Switching to nitrofurantoin; Visual hallucinations and delusions

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESCITALOPRAM; NITROFURANTOIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISORIENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INSOMNIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

COOPERATION BETWEEN CLINICAL PHARMACSIT AND PSYCHIATRIST; GERIATRIC CASE REPORT; PSYCHIATRIC ADVERSE EFFECT; SAFETY OF TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SWITCHING TO NITROFURANTOIN; VISUAL HALLUCINATIONS AND DELUSIONS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NITROFURANTOIN; RISPERIDONE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84895469500     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2013.10.016     Document Type: Article

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