Alert to physicians
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Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil: Neurologist, Neurology Unit; Physician, Neurology Resident; Medical student, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Imipenem, one of the first antibiotics of the carbapenem class, was developed more than 2 decades ago and has been utilized for multi-resistant bacterial infections in more than 26 million patients. It also has been a life-saving drug, as some bacteria are frequently resistant to other broadspectrum antibiotics. Imipenem-related encephalopathy was not formally reported, and can be overlooked by practitioners. The aim of this report is to alert physicians to this condition.
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