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Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens.

Paritosh KafleAmrendra Kumar MandalBinav ShresthaBikash BhattraiManjul BhandariShambhu BhagatBijoy Shankar KarDikshya SharmaVijay Gayam
Published in: Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reports (2020)
Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite adding midazolam drip as well as phenobarbitone to the management regimen and excluding other possible diagnoses.
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