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Case Reports
. 2022 Jul 22;14(3):614-618.
doi: 10.3390/neurolint14030049.

Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication

María Dolores Calabria Gallego  1   2 , Mónica Alañá García  2
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Case Reports

Acute Carbamazepine Intoxication

María Dolores Calabria Gallego et al. Neurol Int. .

Abstract

Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug with multiple mechanisms of action, which condition the presence of a characteristic clinical picture after the overingestion of the drug. We expose a case report about a patient who, in the context of an attempted suicide, presented acute intoxication by benzodiazepines and carbamazepine, presenting the characteristic clinical picture of fluctuations in the level of consciousness, even presenting gaze deconjugation, almost unreactive coma and generalized hypotonia.

Keywords: acute intoxication; carbamazepine; neurological side effects.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
No intra- or extra-axial bleeding signs of acute ischemia (ASPECTS 10) or occupying lesions were observed in the simple cranial CT.
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Figure 2
No alterations are observed in the parametric maps (mean transit time, flow or brain volume) suggesting acute cerebral ischemia.
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