We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Bromide intoxication secondary to pyridostigmine bromide therapy.
- Authors
Rothenberg, D M; Berns, A S; Barkin, R; Glantz, R H
- Abstract
The diagnosis of bromide intoxication is often aided by the detection of a low or negative anion gap due to the laboratory detection of bromide as chloride. A 59-year-old woman with myasthenia gravis who received a large dose of pyridostigmine bromide developed postoperative psychosis and was diagnosed as having bromide intoxication. The diagnosis was suspected in the setting of a negative anion gap and only later confirmed by direct measurement of the serum bromide level. To our knowledge , this is the first reported case of bromide intoxication due to pyridostigmine bromide administration.
- Subjects
BROMIDES; MYASTHENIA gravis; PYRIDINE; SUBSTANCE-induced psychoses
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1990, Vol 263, Issue 8, p1121
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.263.8.1121