hemodialysis/seizures

Despite popular use of piperacillin, the dire neurotoxicity associated with piperacillin still goes unrecognized, leading to a delay in appropriate management. We report a 57-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), who developed slurred

OBJECTIVE To report a case of reversible seizures and mental status changes in a dialysis patient given preventive isoniazid therapy. METHODS A 66-year-old woman on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) was given isoniazid prophylaxis following a purified protein derivative (PPD) reaction

An on-line enzymatic assay of dialysis fluid has been used to monitor the extracellular glutamate concentration in the rat hippocampus. Perfusion with artificial cerebrospinal fluid containing a glutamate uptake inhibitor (either dihydrokainate or 4,4'-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2' disulfonic acid)

Cephalosporins are epileptogenic drugs, especially when excessive dosages are used or when the drugs are used in patients with decreased renal clearance. The present case report showed that a chronic kidney patient receiving hemodialysis developed generalized tonic clonic seizures when an

BACKGROUND In Japan, the number of hemodialysis patients increases every year, along with the average age of this patient population. Further, certain complications of hemodialysis make the care of traumatic head injury(THI)patients particularly difficult. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed at

Administration of recombinant erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) is an effective treatment for the anaemia of chronic renal failure, but in some patients it has been accompanied by elevated blood pressure. This study focuses on seven patients with end-stage renal failure, managed on haemodialysis, who

Thiocolchicoside (TCC) is a widely used centrally acting muscle relaxant. Epileptic seizures from the use of TCC are rarely reported. A 67-year-old male patient with endstage renal disease that was caused by hypertension was on maintenance hemodialysis (HD) for 22 months. He had taken TCC 8 mg

OBJECTIVE Levetiracetam is used in the treatment of some forms of epilepsy. In renal impairment and patients on chronic haemodialysis, dose adjustment is required. We report a case. METHODS This case report describes a woman on levetiracetam treatment who presented with generalized tonic-clonic

The authors, referring to 29 observed cases, review the characteristics of true renal epilepsy with regard both to attacks and to interictal periods. Their research shows that this type of epilepsy cannot be explained by any specific anatomical lesion but is probably functional and more specifically

We are reporting a cloxacillin-induced seizure in a patient with stage 5 chronic kidney disease requiring hemodialysis. To our knowledge, there are no published case reports of seizures induced by parenteral cloxacillin in hemodialysis patients. A young hemodialysis female was admitted to the

OBJECTIVE To report a case of a patient undergoing peritoneal dialysis who developed refractory seizures after 2 doses of ertapenem. METHODS A 56-year-old white man with end-stage renal disease requiring continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis experienced 5 seizures following 2 doses of ertapenem

Two patients with long standing uremia sustained bone injuries due to tetany in one, and convulsions secondary to hemodialysis-induced alkalosis and hypomagnesemia in the other. In the former, there were multiple fractures involving the scapula, clavicles and femoral necks. In the latter, there was

The increasing prevalence of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens in intensive care units has led to the revival of colistin. Colistin had gone into disrepute in early 1970s because of numerous reports of adverse renal and neurological effects. The renewed interest in colistin has also

Seizures, neuronal damage and extracellular Ca2+ concentration were studied in rats unilaterally injected in the dorsal hippocampus with quinolinic acid, a brain metabolite with excitotoxic properties. In freely moving animals, in the first 2 h after the injection of a convulsant and neurotoxic dose

Non-traumatic rupture of large tendons is identified as a contributor to morbidity in patients who receive haemodialysis. The injury is likely to become more common as the duration of survival on dialysis extends. A number of predisposing factors leading to tendon injury have been identified in the