Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine
Recent studies of military personnel who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have reported a number of combat-related psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injury. This case report involves a 27-year-old male active-duty US military service me...
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| author | Alan L. Peterson Robert A. Seegmiller Libby S. Schindler |
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| description | Recent studies of military personnel who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have reported a number of combat-related psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injury. This case report involves a 27-year-old male active-duty US military service member who developed severe depression, psychotic hallucinations, and neuropsychological sequelae following the prophylactic use of the antimalarial medication mefloquine hydrochloride. The patient had a recent history of depression and was taking antidepressant medications at the time of his deployment to the Middle East. Psychiatrists and other health care providers should be aware of the possible neuropsychiatric side effects of mefloquine in deployed military personnel and should consider the use of other medications for malaria prophylaxis in those individuals who may be at increased risk for side effects. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-15fd0713f894422c926524c2c6fdfd8a2025-08-20T03:54:24ZengWileyCase Reports in Psychiatry2090-682X2090-68382011-01-01201110.1155/2011/350417350417Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic MefloquineAlan L. Peterson0Robert A. Seegmiller1Libby S. Schindler2Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA59th Medical Operations Squadron, Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX 78236, USA59th Medical Operations Squadron, Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX 78236, USARecent studies of military personnel who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have reported a number of combat-related psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injury. This case report involves a 27-year-old male active-duty US military service member who developed severe depression, psychotic hallucinations, and neuropsychological sequelae following the prophylactic use of the antimalarial medication mefloquine hydrochloride. The patient had a recent history of depression and was taking antidepressant medications at the time of his deployment to the Middle East. Psychiatrists and other health care providers should be aware of the possible neuropsychiatric side effects of mefloquine in deployed military personnel and should consider the use of other medications for malaria prophylaxis in those individuals who may be at increased risk for side effects.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/350417 |
| spellingShingle | Alan L. Peterson Robert A. Seegmiller Libby S. Schindler Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine Case Reports in Psychiatry |
| title | Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine |
| title_full | Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine |
| title_fullStr | Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine |
| title_short | Severe Neuropsychiatric Reaction in a Deployed Military Member after Prophylactic Mefloquine |
| title_sort | severe neuropsychiatric reaction in a deployed military member after prophylactic mefloquine |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/350417 |
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