Psychosis beas  a rare side effect of sildenafil: a case report

BACKGROUND: Sildenafil citrate is a commonly used medication for the management of erectile dysfunction. Previous studies have described some neuropsychiatric side effects of this medication. So far, however, there has been little discussion about sildenafil-induced psychosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We...

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Autores principales: Shalbafan, Mohammadreza, Orooji, Maryam, Kamalzadeh, Leila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8957191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35337380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03334-6
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author Shalbafan, Mohammadreza
Orooji, Maryam
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description BACKGROUND: Sildenafil citrate is a commonly used medication for the management of erectile dysfunction. Previous studies have described some neuropsychiatric side effects of this medication. So far, however, there has been little discussion about sildenafil-induced psychosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We here present the case of a 32-year-old Iranian male, without a known psychiatric history, who developed psychotic symptoms following initiation of sildenafil. We also postulate a mechanism by which this may occur. CONCLUSIONS: This report highlights the importance of watchful observation for the occurrence of this rare but serious side effect. Further studies are needed to clarify the precise mechanism that causes sildenafil-induced psychosis.
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spelling pubmed-89571912022-03-27 Psychosis beas  a rare side effect of sildenafil: a case report Shalbafan, Mohammadreza Orooji, Maryam Kamalzadeh, Leila J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Sildenafil citrate is a commonly used medication for the management of erectile dysfunction. Previous studies have described some neuropsychiatric side effects of this medication. So far, however, there has been little discussion about sildenafil-induced psychosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We here present the case of a 32-year-old Iranian male, without a known psychiatric history, who developed psychotic symptoms following initiation of sildenafil. We also postulate a mechanism by which this may occur. CONCLUSIONS: This report highlights the importance of watchful observation for the occurrence of this rare but serious side effect. Further studies are needed to clarify the precise mechanism that causes sildenafil-induced psychosis. BioMed Central 2022-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8957191/ /pubmed/35337380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03334-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_short Psychosis beas  a rare side effect of sildenafil: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8957191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35337380
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