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Anticholinergic delirium caused by topical homatropine ophthalmologic solution: confirmation by anticholinergic
L E Tune1, F W Bylsma, D C Hilt
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The authors report two patients with prolonged metabolic delirium presumably initiated by systemic absorption of homatropine from a topical ophthalmologic solution. Anticholinergic toxicity was confirmed by muscarinic radioreceptor assay in both cases and by quantitative EEG in one case.