Successful clozapine re-challenge in a patient with three previous episodes of clozapine-associated blood dyscrasia

A case is presented of a 30-year-old female with treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder who was referred to a tertiary-level specialist psychosis service. We describe the history of clozapine trials and associated episodes of agranulocytosis and neutropenia, followed by the successfully tolera...

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Autores principales: Foster, Jessica, Lally, John, Bell, Victoria, Shergill, Sukhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28243462
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjpo.bp.116.003467
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Sumario:A case is presented of a 30-year-old female with treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder who was referred to a tertiary-level specialist psychosis service. We describe the history of clozapine trials and associated episodes of agranulocytosis and neutropenia, followed by the successfully tolerated third clozapine re-challenge within our service. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. COPYRIGHT AND USAGE: © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

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