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case_images: Timeline of the events described.
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case_images: F1
case_images: On the day of admission to the hospital (day 0, see Figure 1), the patient presented symptoms such as fluctuating lucidity of consciousness, psychomotor restlessness, severe anxiety with tremor, emotional lability, intrapsychic tension, subdepressive mood, hyperhidrosis, and constipation.
case_images: Plasma concentration of paroxetine in a patient after paroxetine intoxication.
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case_images: F2
case_images: This corresponds to the half-life (t1/2) of approximately 9 days; the calculation is based on the concentration curve (see Figure 2). Paroxetine levels were monitored (see Figure 2.) and slowly dropped to 250 ng/mL on day 30, thus reaching the level considered non-toxic not sooner than 1 month after the intoxication.