Olanzapine Induced Mania: A Case Report

A 35 yrs, old male, a known case of Paranoid Schizophrenia for last 20 yrs, not respond to conventional anti-psychotics and was prescribed Olanzapine upto to 30mg/day. Patient developed manic symptoms during olanzapine therapy. He also showed a strong desire or sense of compu′sion to take the substa...

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Autores principales: Chavan, B.S., Sidana, Ajeet, Singh, Gurvinder Pal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206817
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author Chavan, B.S.
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description A 35 yrs, old male, a known case of Paranoid Schizophrenia for last 20 yrs, not respond to conventional anti-psychotics and was prescribed Olanzapine upto to 30mg/day. Patient developed manic symptoms during olanzapine therapy. He also showed a strong desire or sense of compu′sion to take the substance and progressive neglect of alternative pleasurable activities and fulfilled the criteria for dependence syndrome as per ICD-10 (WHO, 1992). This is a rare case of olanzapine induced mania along with abuse of olanzapine. This is suggested that during treatment with Olanzapine, the clinicians should be vigilant for mood changes and risk of olanzapine abuse.
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spelling pubmed-29515442011-01-04 Olanzapine Induced Mania: A Case Report Chavan, B.S. Sidana, Ajeet Singh, Gurvinder Pal Indian J Psychiatry Case Report A 35 yrs, old male, a known case of Paranoid Schizophrenia for last 20 yrs, not respond to conventional anti-psychotics and was prescribed Olanzapine upto to 30mg/day. Patient developed manic symptoms during olanzapine therapy. He also showed a strong desire or sense of compu′sion to take the substance and progressive neglect of alternative pleasurable activities and fulfilled the criteria for dependence syndrome as per ICD-10 (WHO, 1992). This is a rare case of olanzapine induced mania along with abuse of olanzapine. This is suggested that during treatment with Olanzapine, the clinicians should be vigilant for mood changes and risk of olanzapine abuse. Medknow Publications 2003 /pmc/articles/PMC2951544/ /pubmed/21206817 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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Olanzapine Induced Mania: A Case Report
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