Acar Tarık, Alkan Gülsüm, Çaksen Hüseyin, Ertekin Birsen, Ergin Mehmet, Koçak Sedat, Cander Başar
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beyhekim State Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
Departments of Pediatrics, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey.
Turk J Pediatr. 2018;60(1):111-112. doi: 10.24953/turkjped.2018.01.019.
Acar T, Alkan G, Çaksen H, Ertekin B, Ergin M, Koçak S, Cander B. Phenytoin induced dystonia. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 111-112. The abnormalities of dopaminergic activity in the basal ganglia have been emphasized to be effective in dystonia. We hereby report a case of a 2.5-year-old male patient who presented with tonic-clonic sezures and who developed dystonia after being given phenytoin. Biperidene hydrochloride was administered intramuscularly; primidone was added to the treatment regimen. After a 7-day-follow-up at the hospital, the patient had no dystonia and was discharged.
