Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report

BACKGROUND: We present the case of a 52-year-old woman with depression who developed extrapyramidal symptoms (mainly parkinsonism) and suicidal ideation while on fluoxetine. METHODS: The patient underwent neurological and neuroimaging examination. RESULTS: The patient's neurological and neuroim...

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Autores principales: Christodoulou, Christos, Papadopoulou, Athanasia, Rizos, Emmanouil, Tournikioti, Kalliopi, Gonda, Xenia, Douzenis, Athanassios, Lykouras, Lefteris
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-5
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author Christodoulou, Christos
Papadopoulou, Athanasia
Rizos, Emmanouil
Tournikioti, Kalliopi
Gonda, Xenia
Douzenis, Athanassios
Lykouras, Lefteris
author_facet Christodoulou, Christos
Papadopoulou, Athanasia
Rizos, Emmanouil
Tournikioti, Kalliopi
Gonda, Xenia
Douzenis, Athanassios
Lykouras, Lefteris
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description BACKGROUND: We present the case of a 52-year-old woman with depression who developed extrapyramidal symptoms (mainly parkinsonism) and suicidal ideation while on fluoxetine. METHODS: The patient underwent neurological and neuroimaging examination. RESULTS: The patient's neurological and neuroimaging examinations were normal and there was no other cause of extrapyramidal symptoms. The patient showed remission of the aforementioned symptomatology when fluoxetine was discontinued. CONCLUSIONS: This case shows that fluoxetine can be associated with extrapyramidal symptoms, and this may have an aggravating affect on clinical depression progress and the emergence of suicidal ideation.
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spelling pubmed-28200282010-02-11 Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report Christodoulou, Christos Papadopoulou, Athanasia Rizos, Emmanouil Tournikioti, Kalliopi Gonda, Xenia Douzenis, Athanassios Lykouras, Lefteris Ann Gen Psychiatry Case report BACKGROUND: We present the case of a 52-year-old woman with depression who developed extrapyramidal symptoms (mainly parkinsonism) and suicidal ideation while on fluoxetine. METHODS: The patient underwent neurological and neuroimaging examination. RESULTS: The patient's neurological and neuroimaging examinations were normal and there was no other cause of extrapyramidal symptoms. The patient showed remission of the aforementioned symptomatology when fluoxetine was discontinued. CONCLUSIONS: This case shows that fluoxetine can be associated with extrapyramidal symptoms, and this may have an aggravating affect on clinical depression progress and the emergence of suicidal ideation. BioMed Central 2010-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2820028/ /pubmed/20148108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-5 Text en Copyright ©2010 Christodoulou et al; 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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Christodoulou, Christos
Papadopoulou, Athanasia
Rizos, Emmanouil
Tournikioti, Kalliopi
Gonda, Xenia
Douzenis, Athanassios
Lykouras, Lefteris
Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
title Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
title_full Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
title_fullStr Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
title_short Extrapyramidal side effects and suicidal ideation under fluoxetine treatment: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-5
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