Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium

We report the case of a 78-year-old male who developed acute pancreatitis related to quetiapine that was administered for the treatment of delirium. No evidence of hypertriglyceridemia, infection, ischemia, chololithiasis or hypercalcemia could be documented.Clinicians should be alerted when treatin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Potolidis, Evangelos, Mandros, Charalampos, Karakitsos, Dimitrios, Kountra, P. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22934221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/625954
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Sumario:We report the case of a 78-year-old male who developed acute pancreatitis related to quetiapine that was administered for the treatment of delirium. No evidence of hypertriglyceridemia, infection, ischemia, chololithiasis or hypercalcemia could be documented.Clinicians should be alerted when treating critical care patients with antipsychotics, as risks might present and potentially lead to hazardous results.

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