NEARLY FATAL SEROTONIN SYNDROME: RARE SIDE EFFECT OF LENOZELID?
Snehil goswami, *Dr. Sunil Kumar, Aman Chaturvedi, Akshay Honmode and A. H. inamdar
ABSTRACT
A 60 year old man was admitted to our intensive care unit for bronchopneumonia with severe sepsis and was started empirically on linezolid pending the result of culture report. The patient developed high-grade fever with generalised muscle rigidity like rigor mortis, altered sensorium and clonus. Serotonin syndrome was suspected and the patient recovered within 24 hour of withdrawing linezolid.
Keywords: Linezolid, antibiotic, serotonin syndrome.
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