"DELIRIUM TREMENS" FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL OF ETHCHLORVINOL

HOWARD P. WOOD and HARRISON F. FLIPPINAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 121, Number 11

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1127

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A mental syndrome indistinguishable from delirium tremens developed after withdrawal in a case of chronic ethchlorvinol intoxication. Our findings are compared with the 3 other published cases, which appear quite similar. As Engel and Romano have noted, this type of abstinence state, with cerebral overactivity, may well have more in common with the effects of hallucinogens than with the cerebral hypofunction of the usual delirium. Convulsive seizures are a regular feature of this syndrome, and anticonvulsants should be administered routinely in addition to the standard phenothiazine drugs.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 121 • Number 11 • May 1965

Pages: 1127 - 1129

PubMed: 14283317

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Published in print: May 1965

Published online: 1 April 2006

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HOWARD P. WOOD

From The Lankenau Hospital and The Schools of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

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HARRISON F. FLIPPIN

From The Lankenau Hospital and The Schools of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

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"DELIRIUM TREMENS" FOLLOWING WITHDRAWAL OF ETHCHLORVINOL

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