Hallucinations after abrupt withdrawal of oral and intrathecal baclofen

From: Functional Neurology | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Cammaroto, Simona; Et al; Marra, Giuseppe; Rifici, Carmela; D'Aleo, Giangaetano | Copyright information

Summary

Since 1977 several cases of hallucinations after abrupt withdrawal of oral baclofen have been described. There are no reports of hallucinations after gradual withdrawal of oral baclofen. No one has ever described visual hallucinations after abrupt interruption of intrathecal baclofen therapy.

We describe five personally observed cases of visual hallucinations occurring after sudden interruption of baclofen (in two of these cases, intrathecal baclofen) therapy. The patien...

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