Clozapine induced pancytopenia leading to severe sepsis: an unusual early complication

BACKGROUND: Clozapine is a second generation antipsychotic used to treat resistant schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses. Leucopenia or agranulocytosis is a rare side effect of this drug. Pancytopenia is an extremely rare side effect of clozapine and literature review showed only one such case...

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Autores principales: Pushpakumara, Jagath, Karunarathna, Piyumanthi, Sivathiran, Sivagamaroobasunthari, Liyanage, Ajantha, Indrakumar, Jegarajah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26674072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1777-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26674072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1777-5

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