Concept information
Chemically-Induced Disorders
Poisoning
Neurotoxicity Syndromes
Alcohol-Induced Disorders, Nervous System
Preferred term
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Type
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Definition
- 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)
Entry terms
- Alcohol Withdrawal-Induced Delirium Tremens
- Delirium Tremens
- Delirium Tremens, Alcohol Withdrawal Induced
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- ethnology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- rehabilitation (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Délire alcoolique
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Délirium trémens dû au sevrage à l'alcool
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Délirium trémens dû au sevrage alcoolique
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Délirium trémens provoqué par le sevrage alcoolique
URI
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