Table 1.
Patient no. | Sex/ age |
CNS manifestations | Presumed etiology | Associated drugs | Therapy | Inpatient/ outpatient |
Hospital stays | mRS (up to 3m) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | m/48 | Sluggish in consciousness | Pneumonia | Piperacillin and tazobactam | Ceftriaxon, arithromycin (moxifloxacin) | Inpatient | 11 | 0 |
2 | m/43 | Disarthria | Suspected hyponatremia | None | Clopidogrel, | Outpatient | 0 | |
3 | m/44 | Seizure, drowsiness and amnesia | Hypoglycemia | Gliclazide, dimethyldiguanide 250 mg.bid | 50% dextrose, potassium chloride, aspirin, atorvastatin | Inpatient | 8 | 1 |
4 | m/35 | Headache | Infection | acyclovir, acetaminophen | saline | Inpatient | 9 | 0 |
5 | f/25 | Seizure, confused consciousness | Hyporexia hyponatremia | None | Saline, acyclovir, levetiracetam | Outpatient | 0 | |
6 | f/40 | Headache | postpartum, Pulmonary embolism | None | Warfarin | Inpatient | 11 | 0 |
7 | f/24 | Recurrent seizure | levetiracetam | Levetiracetam | Levetiracetam | Outpatient | 0 | |
8 | m/23 | Paroxysmal blurred vision | bacterial respiratory infection | Levofloxacin, acetaminophen | Levofloxacin, Aspirin, atorvastatin | Inpatient | 10 | 0 |
9 | m/23 | Dizziness with nausea and vomiting | Rabies vaccine injection | rabies vaccine, Amoxicillin and paracetamol | Ofloxacin, betahistine | Outpatient | 0 | |
10 | m/25 | Dizziness, paresthesia, dysmetria, memory problem, proxysmal vertigo, motor fine skills deficit | Hyperglycemia | None | Aspirin, atorvastatin, insulin, metformin | Inpatient | 5 | 0 |
11 | f/43 | None | Carbamazepine | Cabamazepine | Outpatient | 0 | 0 | |
12 | f/22 | Hedache, loss of consciousness | Valproate/seizure | Valproate | Valproate | Inpatient | 4 | 0 |
13 | m/25 | Dizzy, Paroxysmal blurred vision, unstable walk | Unknown | None | Aspirin | Outpatient | 0 | 0 |
14 | m/30 | None | Presumed virus infection | None | Amoxicillin, ceftriaxone, levofloxacin, piperacillin and tazobactam, linezolid, compound paracetamol, indomethacin | Inpatient | 8 | 0 |
15 | m/53 | Convulsion | Seizure | None | None | Outpatient | 0 | 0 |
RESLES: reversible splenial lesion syndrome, Patient no.: patient number, m: male, f:female, CNS: central nervous system, mRS: modified Rankin Scale