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Quinolone-Induced Painful Peripheral Neuropathy: A Case Report and Literature Review
JIM - high impact case reports, v 6, pp 2324709617752736-2324709617752736
Jan 2018
PMID: 29511692
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Abstract
We present a case report of a 20-year-old male with diabetes mellitus type 1, who developed severe painful peripheral neuropathy while on the second of a 10-day course with levofloxacin for the treatment of epididymitis. The intensity of the pain rapidly reached scores of 10/10 in a numeric scale 0/10, and the patient was transferred to an inpatient pain unit where he was treated aggressively with minimal improvement. A skin biopsy revealed small fiber neuropathy. Then the patient was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, which improved the pain. Now the patient is on outpatient intravenous immunoglobulin infusions bimonthly and making a slow recovery.
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- Title
- Quinolone-Induced Painful Peripheral Neuropathy: A Case Report and Literature Review
- Creators
- Leonel J F Estofan - Neurosciences InstituteStanislav Naydin - Neurosciences InstituteGediminas Gliebus - Neurosciences Institute
- Publication Details
- JIM - high impact case reports, v 6, pp 2324709617752736-2324709617752736
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000453052800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85059179341
- Other Identifier
- 991019168348904721
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