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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Disulfiram-induced epileptic seizures.

Violeta Nogueira, Mafalda Azevedo Mendes, Inês Pereira, Joana Teixeira

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Disulfiram: Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Violeta NogueiraUnidade de Alcoologia e Novas Dependências, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal violetanogueira@chpl.min-saude.pt.
Mafalda Azevedo MendesServiço de Psiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Inês PereiraServiço de Psiquiatria, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Joana TeixeiraUnidade de Alcoologia e Novas Dependências, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disulfiram has been widely used for over six decades in the treatment of alcohol dependence, as an aversive therapeutic agent. Despite having very few side effects when taken without concurrent alcohol consumption, some of these may underlie serious clinical complications. Epileptic seizure induction is a rare adverse effect of disulfiram and its aetiological mechanism is unknown. We present a hospitalised 47-year-old male patient with two episodes of generalised tonic-clonic seizures during treatment with disulfiram while abstinent from alcohol.

Indexed as

Epilepsies, PartialEpilepsy, GeneralizedEpilepsy, Tonic-ClonicAnticonvulsantsCarbamazepineDisulfiramHumansMaleMiddle AgedSeizuresAnticonvulsantsCarbamazepineDisulfiramdrugs: psychiatryepilepsy and seizuressafety

Identifiers

PMID33731397
PMCPMC7978088
OpenAlexW3138418485

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