Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder

Atypical antipsychotic medications are commonly used to treat symptoms of delirium. Olanzapine has been successfully used in the treatment of delirium. However, there have been few case reports of delirium associated with olanzapine. We hereby report a case of delirium associated with olanzapine the...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Ravi C., Aggarwal, Ashish
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20577626
http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2010.7.2.153
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description Atypical antipsychotic medications are commonly used to treat symptoms of delirium. Olanzapine has been successfully used in the treatment of delirium. However, there have been few case reports of delirium associated with olanzapine. We hereby report a case of delirium associated with olanzapine therapy. Possible risk factors and underlying pathogenesis is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-28908712010-06-24 Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder Sharma, Ravi C. Aggarwal, Ashish Psychiatry Investig Case Report Atypical antipsychotic medications are commonly used to treat symptoms of delirium. Olanzapine has been successfully used in the treatment of delirium. However, there have been few case reports of delirium associated with olanzapine. We hereby report a case of delirium associated with olanzapine therapy. Possible risk factors and underlying pathogenesis is discussed. Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2010-06 2010-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2890871/ /pubmed/20577626 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2010.7.2.153 Text en Copyright © 2010 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sharma, Ravi C.
Aggarwal, Ashish
Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title_full Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title_fullStr Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title_short Delirium Associated with Olanzapine Therapy in an Elderly Male with Bipolar Affective Disorder
title_sort delirium associated with olanzapine therapy in an elderly male with bipolar affective disorder
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20577626
http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2010.7.2.153
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