Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment

BACKGROUND: There have been previous reported deaths due to clozapine-induced constipation. In all these cases patients have experienced prior abdominal symptoms over a period of weeks or months. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the sudden death due to constipation of a healthy young male patient on clo...

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Autores principales: Townsend, Giles, Curtis, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1621059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17052340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-6-43
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description BACKGROUND: There have been previous reported deaths due to clozapine-induced constipation. In all these cases patients have experienced prior abdominal symptoms over a period of weeks or months. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the sudden death due to constipation of a healthy young male patient on clozapine without any known history of prior abdominal symptoms. CONCLUSION: Psychiatrists need to be alert to the medical emergencies which can occur in the context of clozapine treatment and also need to make other clinicians who may have contact with their patients aware of these.
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spelling pubmed-16210592006-10-24 Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment Townsend, Giles Curtis, David BMC Psychiatry Case Report BACKGROUND: There have been previous reported deaths due to clozapine-induced constipation. In all these cases patients have experienced prior abdominal symptoms over a period of weeks or months. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the sudden death due to constipation of a healthy young male patient on clozapine without any known history of prior abdominal symptoms. CONCLUSION: Psychiatrists need to be alert to the medical emergencies which can occur in the context of clozapine treatment and also need to make other clinicians who may have contact with their patients aware of these. BioMed Central 2006-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC1621059/ /pubmed/17052340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-6-43 Text en Copyright © 2006 Townsend and Curtis; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title_full Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title_fullStr Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title_full_unstemmed Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title_short Case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
title_sort case report: rapidly fatal bowel ischaemia on clozapine treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1621059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17052340
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