• N. Z. Med. J. · May 2014

    Case Reports

    Metronidazole-induced encephalopathy: an uncommon scenario.

    • Subrata Chakrabarti and Koushik Pan.
    • Department of General Medicine, IPGMER, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. subratachakrabarti2011@gmail.com.
    • N. Z. Med. J. 2014 May 2; 127 (1393): 120-2.

    AbstractMetronidazole can produce neurological complications although it is not a common scenario. We present a case where a patient developed features of encephalopathy following prolonged metronidazole intake. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain showed abnormal signal intensity involving both dentate nuclei of cerebellum and splenium of corpus callosum. The diagnosis of metronidazole toxicity was made by the MRI findings and supported clinically.

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