Psychiatric Complications of Chloroquine

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  • M.S. Bhatia
  • S.C. Malik
چکیده

Sixty patients with chloroquine induced psychiatric complications are reported in the present series. Psychosis was the most common complication followed by anxiety state and seizures. The maximum number of patients were between the ages of 6 and 10 years and females (70.0%) outnumbered the males (30.0%). Headache and sleeplessness were found to be more common amongpatients developing psychiatric complications of chloroquine. The symptoms disappeared within 2 to 21 days after the discontinuation of chloroquine.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 36  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1994