Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report
Levetiracetam, a relatively new antiepileptic drug (AED), is used mainly as adjuvant and less as monotherapy of seizure. Though rare, Levetiracetam is reported to induce hallucination. To highlight the potential of this adverse drug event, we report a seizure-case that had auditory hallucination wit...
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| description | Levetiracetam, a relatively new antiepileptic drug (AED), is used mainly as adjuvant and less as monotherapy of seizure. Though rare, Levetiracetam is reported to induce hallucination. To highlight the potential of this adverse drug event, we report a seizure-case that had auditory hallucination with Levetiracetam. A 32-year lady had 7-year history of unresponsive spells which increased in the last year, also occurred while asleep and were diagnosed as “generalized seizure” with video-EEG. With gradual optimization of Levetiracetam to 2250 mg, she continuously heard distressing sound of saw cutting wooden blocks. After 3-day continuous auditory hallucination, Levetiracetam had to be changed to sodium valproate. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-736f103660ff4791b7c3f32d6630d3bc2025-02-03T05:59:28ZengWileyCase Reports in Medicine1687-96271687-96352012-01-01201210.1155/2012/706243706243Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case ReportD. R. Shakya0A. Dutta1R. Gautam2Department of Psychiatry, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, 56700 Dharan, NepalDepartment of Psychiatry, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, 56700 Dharan, NepalDepartment of Psychiatry, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, 56700 Dharan, NepalLevetiracetam, a relatively new antiepileptic drug (AED), is used mainly as adjuvant and less as monotherapy of seizure. Though rare, Levetiracetam is reported to induce hallucination. To highlight the potential of this adverse drug event, we report a seizure-case that had auditory hallucination with Levetiracetam. A 32-year lady had 7-year history of unresponsive spells which increased in the last year, also occurred while asleep and were diagnosed as “generalized seizure” with video-EEG. With gradual optimization of Levetiracetam to 2250 mg, she continuously heard distressing sound of saw cutting wooden blocks. After 3-day continuous auditory hallucination, Levetiracetam had to be changed to sodium valproate.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/706243 |
| spellingShingle | D. R. Shakya A. Dutta R. Gautam Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report Case Reports in Medicine |
| title | Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report |
| title_full | Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report |
| title_short | Hallucination in a Seizure Patient Using Levetiracetam: A Case Report |
| title_sort | hallucination in a seizure patient using levetiracetam a case report |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/706243 |
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