[Drug-related delirium in elderly patients].

PubWeight™: 0.76‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMID 20640925)

Published in Wien Med Wochenschr on June 01, 2010

Authors

Bernhard Iglseder1, Peter Dovjak2, Ursula Benvenuti-Falger3, Birgit Böhmdorfer4, Monika Lechleitner3, Ronald Otto5, Regina E Roller5, Ulrike Sommeregger6, Markus Gosch7

Author Affiliations

1: Universitätsklinik für Geriatrie, Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität, Salzburg, Austria.
2: Abteilung für Akutgeriatrie/Remobilisation, Landeskrankenhaus Gmunden, Gmunden, Austria.
3: Abteilung für Innere Medizin und Akutgeriatrie, Landeskrankenhaus Hochzirl, Zirl, Austria.
4: Anstaltsapotheke, Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhügel, Wien, Austria.
5: Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin, Medizinische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria.
6: Abteilung für Akutgeriatrie, Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhügel, Wien, Austria.
7: Abteilung für Innere Medizin und Akutgeriatrie, Landeskrankenhaus Hochzirl, Zirl, Austria. markus.gosch@tilak.at.

Articles citing this

Tools in polypharmacy. Current evidence from observational and controlled studies. Z Gerontol Geriatr (2012) 0.79

Insight into delirium. Innov Clin Neurosci (2011) 0.79

Articles cited by this

Clarifying confusion: the confusion assessment method. A new method for detection of delirium. Ann Intern Med (1990) 16.54

Delirium in older persons. N Engl J Med (2006) 9.70

The serotonin syndrome. N Engl J Med (2005) 8.98

Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review. Age Ageing (2006) 3.42

Delirium in older people. BMJ (2007) 2.77

Delirium: a symptom of how hospital care is failing older persons and a window to improve quality of hospital care. Am J Med (1999) 2.01

Cholinergic deficiency hypothesis in delirium: a synthesis of current evidence. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2008) 1.61

Dopamine receptors and brain function. Neuropharmacology (1996) 1.41

Clinical significance of delirium subtypes in older people. Age Ageing (1999) 1.36

The association of serum anticholinergic activity with delirium in elderly medical patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry (1998) 1.34

An approach to drug induced delirium in the elderly. Postgrad Med J (2004) 1.25

Update on the neuropathogenesis of delirium. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord (1999) 1.08

Cocaine-associated agitated delirium and the neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Am J Emerg Med (1996) 1.06

Association between psychoactive medications and delirium in hospitalized patients: a critical review. Psychosomatics (2005) 0.90

Anticholinergic drug-induced delirium: experimental modification, quantitative EEG and behavioral correlations. J Nerv Ment Dis (1966) 0.89

Levofloxacin-induced delirium with psychotic features. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (2008) 0.84

Life-threatening serotonin toxicity due to a citalopram-fluconazole drug interaction: case reports and discussion. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (2008) 0.79

Beta-lactams: a new class of conformationally-rigid inhibitors of gamma-aminobutyric acid aminotransferase. J Enzyme Inhib (1992) 0.76

Bupropion, ECT, and dopaminergic overdrive. Am J Psychiatry (1991) 0.75

Delirium after cessation of glucocorticoid therapy. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (1991) 0.75

Alteration of muscarinic acetylcholine binding sites in the postischemic brain areas of the rat using in vitro autoradiography. J Neurol Sci (1994) 0.75

Articles by these authors

[Oral anticoagulation and risk of bleeding in elderly patients - the aspect of polypharmacy]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.82

[Multiple drug therapy - a challenge for an aging society]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.78

[Polypharmacy and pain treatment]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.75

[Polypharmacy and falls in the Elderly]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.75

[Polypharmacy is of major concern in cardiology]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.75

[Diuretics-related complications in elderly patients]. Wien Med Wochenschr (2010) 0.75