| Literature DB >> 21686818 |
Shankar Srinivas Kuchibatla1, Sofia Akram Cheema, Kripa S Chakravarthy, Hany George El Sayeh.
Abstract
A 32-year-old male patient with a history of treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) during changeover of his antipsychotic medication from zuclopenthixol depot to clozapine. This case highlights the difficulties of cross-tapering two antipsychotics-that is, converting from a typical depot medication to an oral atypical antipsychotic.Entities:
Year: 2009 PMID: 21686818 PMCID: PMC3027363 DOI: 10.1136/bcr.07.2008.0429
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMJ Case Rep ISSN: 1757-790X