Severe Relapsing Clozapine-Withdrawal Catatonia

Catatonia as a clozapine-withdrawal syndrome has only been documented in the medical literature as case reports. We are reporting a case in which a 32-year-old man develops a catatonic state upon withdrawal of clozapine. The state was quite severe and needed ICU admission. The course was chronic and...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shahrour, Tarek, Siddiq, Muez, Ghalib, Saad, Alsaadi, Taoufik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4691610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26788394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/606853
Descripción
Sumario:Catatonia as a clozapine-withdrawal syndrome has only been documented in the medical literature as case reports. We are reporting a case in which a 32-year-old man develops a catatonic state upon withdrawal of clozapine. The state was quite severe and needed ICU admission. The course was chronic and intermittent which we think was caused by the poor adherence to antipsychotics. The importance of identifying such cases early is underlined.

Ejemplares similares