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Symptoms of agitated depression and/or akathisia.
Akathisia is a syndrome characterized by the unpleasant sensation of "inner" restlessness that manifests itself in the inability of sitting still or not moving. Many types of medicaments can cause akathisia as an adverse event of their use and they include: antipsychotics, antidepressants, antiemetics, antihistamines, and psychoactive substances. We will present the case of a 50 year old patien...
متن کاملAkathisia with Erythromycin: Induced or precipitated?
OBJECTIVE A 28-year-old male diagnosed with schizophrenia, maintaining well on Olanzapine, developed akathisia soon after addition of Erythromycin for Pityriasis Rosea. This prompted us to evaluate the relationship of Erythromycin and akathisia. METHOD We report the case and the literature focusing on akathisia as a possible adverse event of Erythromycin. RESULTS Akathisia resolved after Er...
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The pathophysiology of akathisia still remains controversial. Iron deficiency was proposed to be an important factor in the development of akathisia. In the present study, it was aimed to compare levels of serum iron and linked variables in chronic akathisic (n=30), and non-akathisic patients (n=30) with schizophrenia and healthy controls (n=30) because of the controversy in the association of ...
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Cell directions get confused when the front cannot communicate with the back (bottom). A putative acyl transferase is lodged in both inner and outer mitochondrial membranes without poking fully through either one, report Claypool et al. (page 379). Point mutations that cause mislocalization of this tafazzin protein within mitochondria or alter its macromolecular interactions are suffi cient to ...
متن کاملThe epidemiology of drug-induced akathisia: Part I. Acute akathisia.
This article reviews the epidemiological data on drug-induced acute akathisia, examining studies in which akathisia was the primary focus as well as those in which it was one of a number of drug side effects studied. The studies are diverse in methodology and suffer from many limitations. Incidence rates for acute akathisia with conventional neuroleptics vary from 8 to 76 percent, with 20 to 30...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.292.6532.1393-a