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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Autores principales: Potolidis, Evangelos, Mandros, Charalampos, Karakitsos, Dimitrios, Kountra, P. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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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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author Potolidis, Evangelos
Mandros, Charalampos
Karakitsos, Dimitrios
Kountra, P. M.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-34207642012-08-29 Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium Potolidis, Evangelos Mandros, Charalampos Karakitsos, Dimitrios Kountra, P. M. Case Rep Psychiatry Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3420764/ /pubmed/22934221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/625954 Text en Copyright © 2012 Evangelos Potolidis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title_full Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title_fullStr Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title_full_unstemmed Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title_short Quetiapine-Associated Pancreatitis in a Geriatric Critical Care Patient with Delirium
title_sort quetiapine-associated pancreatitis in a geriatric critical care patient with delirium
topic Case Report
url 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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