Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report

Poor outcome hebephrenic schizophrenia patients are clinically challenging. In this report, we demonstrate the usefulness of pimozide add-on thereapy to ongoing clozapine regime in a case who poorly reponded to clozapine, ECT and adequate trials with at least two conventional antipsychotics.

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Autores principales: Mendhekar, D.N., Gupta, Deepak, Lohia, Deep, Jiloha, R.C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2003
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206816
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author Mendhekar, D.N.
Gupta, Deepak
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description Poor outcome hebephrenic schizophrenia patients are clinically challenging. In this report, we demonstrate the usefulness of pimozide add-on thereapy to ongoing clozapine regime in a case who poorly reponded to clozapine, ECT and adequate trials with at least two conventional antipsychotics.
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spelling pubmed-29515432011-01-04 Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report Mendhekar, D.N. Gupta, Deepak Lohia, Deep Jiloha, R.C. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Poor outcome hebephrenic schizophrenia patients are clinically challenging. In this report, we demonstrate the usefulness of pimozide add-on thereapy to ongoing clozapine regime in a case who poorly reponded to clozapine, ECT and adequate trials with at least two conventional antipsychotics. Medknow Publications 2003 /pmc/articles/PMC2951543/ /pubmed/21206816 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Deepak
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Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title_full Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title_short Pimozide Augmentation of Clozapine in Hebephrenic Schizophrenia: A Case Report
title_sort pimozide augmentation of clozapine in hebephrenic schizophrenia: a case report
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206816
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