background: renal failure is an important adverse effect of drug poisoning. determining the prevalence and etiology of this serious side effect could help us find appropriate strategies for the prevention of renal failure in most affected patients. objectives: the present study is aimed to identify drugs that induce renal failure and also to find the prevalence of renal failure in patients refe...

neuroleptic malignant syndrome (nms) is a rare but life-threatening idiosyncratic side effect resulting from neuroleptic drugs. nms mainly occurs in patients treated with high-potency typical antipsychotics, but rarely caused by atypical antipsychotics. although nms is less common with atypical antipsychotic, but it seems that its incidence is rising due to increased administration of such drug...

results anxiety, as the second most common reason of psychiatric disorders in cases of poisoning, with a prevalence of 12.1% in form of mild, 75.9% moderate and 12.1% severe, was confirmed among the participants of this study. conclusions the prevalence of anxiety among cases of poisoning with both drugs and chemicals are noticeably higher than general population. this fact strongly suggests th...

introduction: previous studies have raised the probably of cardiac manifestation in tramadol poisoning. however, conclusive information on electrocardiographic (ecg) abnormalities of tramadol overdose remains to be explained. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of ecg abnormalities in tramadol poisoned patients. methods: in a prospective cross-sectional study, all pa...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare but life-threatening idiosyncratic side effect resulting from neuroleptic drugs. NMS mainly occurs in patients treated with high-potency typical antipsychotics, but rarely caused by atypical antipsychotics. Although NMS is less common with atypical antipsychotic, but it seems that its incidence is rising due to increased administration of such drug...

Acute myopia following use of some drugs is a relatively rare condition. Topiramate prescribed for seizure prophylaxis is one of these drugs. In this paper a case of acute transient myopia after taking topiramate is reported. The reported patient is a 28-year old woman who had no history of any eye disease. Following consumption of topiramate pill for one week, she had found blurred vision ...

BACKGROUND The introduction of intrathecal opioid administration for intractable chronic non-malignant pain and cancer pain is considered as one of the most important breakthroughs in pain management. Morphine, the only opioid approved by FDA for intrathecal administration, has been increasingly utilized for this purpose. For over 3 decades, there have been numerous reports on the non-nocicepti...

epilepsy is one of the common neurologic disorders in children. drug side-effects are one of the important problems in treating patients with epilepsy. using the antiepileptic medication may cause different side effects such as disorder in bone and vitamin d metabolism. sodium valproate is one of the antiepileptic medications used widely. some of its side effects include digestive disorder, inc...