Sodium Valproate induced priapism in an adult with bipolar affective disorder

Priapism is defined as a prolonged and persistent, painful erection of the penis without sexual stimulation or arousal. There have been a few case report of priapism resulting from the use of antipsychotics. In our case, a 48-year-old male patient with a bipolar affective disorder was experiencing r...

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Autores principales: Bansal, Shwetank, Gupta, Sumit Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24347777
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.121383
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description Priapism is defined as a prolonged and persistent, painful erection of the penis without sexual stimulation or arousal. There have been a few case report of priapism resulting from the use of antipsychotics. In our case, a 48-year-old male patient with a bipolar affective disorder was experiencing recurrent priapism with sodium valproate. The condition was found to resolve on stopping sodium valproate. There are no known case reports of similar complication with sodium valproate alone.
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spelling pubmed-38472592013-12-16 Sodium Valproate induced priapism in an adult with bipolar affective disorder Bansal, Shwetank Gupta, Sumit Kumar Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Priapism is defined as a prolonged and persistent, painful erection of the penis without sexual stimulation or arousal. There have been a few case report of priapism resulting from the use of antipsychotics. In our case, a 48-year-old male patient with a bipolar affective disorder was experiencing recurrent priapism with sodium valproate. The condition was found to resolve on stopping sodium valproate. There are no known case reports of similar complication with sodium valproate alone. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3847259/ /pubmed/24347777 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.121383 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology 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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title_short Sodium Valproate induced priapism in an adult with bipolar affective disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847259/
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