Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report

We report the case of a 51‐year‐old Caucasian woman who developed a pulmonary embolism in the absence of any pre‐existing risk factors for VTE, 3 weeks following clozapine initiation for treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia. She was initially misdiagnosed and treated for suspected COVID‐19 inf...

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Autores principales: Kwan, Jing Yi, Noor, Maha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35340632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5497
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spelling pubmed-89336342022-03-24 Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report Kwan, Jing Yi Noor, Maha Clin Case Rep Case Reports We report the case of a 51‐year‐old Caucasian woman who developed a pulmonary embolism in the absence of any pre‐existing risk factors for VTE, 3 weeks following clozapine initiation for treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia. She was initially misdiagnosed and treated for suspected COVID‐19 infection. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8933634/ /pubmed/35340632 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5497 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title_full Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title_fullStr Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title_short Clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: A case report
title_sort clozapine‐induced pulmonary embolism in a patient with no pre‐existing risk factors: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8933634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35340632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5497
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