Aripiprazole-Induced Neutropenia in a Seven Year-Old Male: A Case Report

Blood dyscrasias are the widely known side effect of the second-generation antipsychotic medications. Aripiprazole rarely causes hematological side effects and it is considered relatively safe. We present the case report of a seven-year-old male who developed acute neutropenia a week after starting...

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Autores principales: Majeed, Muhammad Hassan, Ali, Ali Ahsan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Allergy/Immunology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29034139
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1561
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description Blood dyscrasias are the widely known side effect of the second-generation antipsychotic medications. Aripiprazole rarely causes hematological side effects and it is considered relatively safe. We present the case report of a seven-year-old male who developed acute neutropenia a week after starting aripiprazole. His absolute neutrophil count (ANC) arose spontaneously once the medication was stopped. Clinicians should periodically check ANC in the patients taking aripiprazole as neutropenia could be lethal in extreme cases. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of leukopenia associated with aripiprazole in the child and adolescent population.
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spelling pubmed-56386552017-10-13 Aripiprazole-Induced Neutropenia in a Seven Year-Old Male: A Case Report Majeed, Muhammad Hassan Ali, Ali Ahsan Cureus Allergy/Immunology Blood dyscrasias are the widely known side effect of the second-generation antipsychotic medications. Aripiprazole rarely causes hematological side effects and it is considered relatively safe. We present the case report of a seven-year-old male who developed acute neutropenia a week after starting aripiprazole. His absolute neutrophil count (ANC) arose spontaneously once the medication was stopped. Clinicians should periodically check ANC in the patients taking aripiprazole as neutropenia could be lethal in extreme cases. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of leukopenia associated with aripiprazole in the child and adolescent population. Cureus 2017-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5638655/ /pubmed/29034139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1561 Text en Copyright © 2017, Majeed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5638655/
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