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J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2017 Jan 01;5(1):2324709616689376. doi: 10.1177/2324709616689376. eCollection 2017.

Ertapenem-Induced Encephalopathy in a Patient With Normal Renal Function.

Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports

S Scott Sutton, Mark Jumper, Sean Cook, Babatunde Edun, Michael D Wyatt

Affiliations

  1. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
  2. Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Columbia, SC, USA.

PMID: 28203577 PMCID: PMC5298517 DOI: 10.1177/2324709616689376

Abstract

Drug-induced neurotoxicity is a rare adverse reaction associated with ertapenem. Encephalopathy is a type of neurotoxicity that is defined as a diffuse disease of the brain that alters brain function or structure. We report a patient with

Keywords: drug-induced encephalopathy; drug-induced neurotoxicity; ertapenem

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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