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Nervous System Diseases > Neurotoxicity Syndromes > Alcohol-Induced Disorders, Nervous System > Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Chemically-Induced Disorders > Poisoning > Neurotoxicity Syndromes > Alcohol-Induced Disorders, Nervous System > Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Mental Disorders > Substance-Related Disorders > Substance Withdrawal Syndrome > Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Chemically-Induced Disorders > Substance-Related Disorders > Substance Withdrawal Syndrome > Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium

Preferred term

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Alcohol Withdrawal Induced Delirium Tremens
  • Alcohol Withdrawal-Induced Delirium Tremens
  • Delirium Tremens
  • Delirium Tremens, Alcohol Withdrawal Induced

Note

  • note X ref; do not confuse with "alcohol withdrawal syndrome" ( = SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME (IM) + ETHANOL /adv eff (IM)); ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES is available

Scope note

  • An acute organic mental disorder induced by cessation or reduction in chronic alcohol consumption. Clinical characteristics include CONFUSION; DELUSIONS; vivid HALLUCINATIONS; TREMOR; agitation; insomnia; and signs of autonomic hyperactivity (e.g., elevated blood pressure and heart rate, dilated pupils, and diaphoresis). This condition may occasionally be fatal. It was formerly called delirium tremens. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1175)

History note

  • 91(81); was see under PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC 1981-90; was DELIRIUM TREMENS see under PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC 1963-80

In other languages

  • juoppohulluus

    Finnish

  • abstinenssymptom med delirium orsakad av alkohol
  • alkoholidelirium
  • alkoholideliriumi
  • alkoholin käytön aiheuttamat vieroitusoireet ja sekavuustila (delirium)
  • alkoholivieroitussekavuus
  • delirium tremens
  • Delirium tremens

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000430

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