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- Title
Cefepime-induced encephalopathy in patient without renal failure.
- Authors
Santos Coelho, Fernando Morgadinho; Bernstein, Maurício; Yokota, Paula Kiyomi Onaga; Elias Coelho, Rosilene Motta; Wachemberg, Marcelo; de Brito Sampaio, Letícia Pereira; Caboclo, Luis Otávio
- Abstract
This case report describes neurotoxicity in an older patient on cefepime 2 g twice a day. The 81-year-old male patient developed non-convulsive status epilepticus during cefepime treatment with 1 g twice a day. There was recovery 30 days after discontinuation of cefepime.
- Subjects
EPILEPSY in old age; NEUROTOXICOLOGY; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHRONIC kidney failure; GLOMERULAR filtration rate
- Publication
Einstein (16794508), 2010, Vol 8, Issue 3, p358
- ISSN
1679-4508
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1590/s1679-45082010rc1121